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...says Wyoming's maverick experiment is fraught with uncertainty, unlike Iowa and New Hampshire. "They have their system honed," she says. "It's taken them decades to get that way. For our folks in Wyoming, this is the first time in choosing our delegates early and it has been a real learning curve for us. We have a lot of folks not paying attention. They need to understand that they're in the forefront of this and people are going to be watching...
...Moines. And the frostiness has little to do with the subfreezing Midwestern winter and everything to do with presidential politics. For housed alongside each other on the bottom floor of a 73-year-old office building at 405 Sixth Avenue - and sharing the bathrooms in the basement- are the Iowa headquarters of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul...
...much bigger. Indeed, thanks to the millions that have poured in over the Internet, it has expanded to quadruple its original size, practically swallowing Huckabee's headquarters - though Huckabee has snagged some additional space a few floors above the storefront. "We've got them surrounded," says Paul's Iowa communications director, John Zambenini...
...insurgent operations generally try to have as little to do with each other as possible. Paul's people go in and out on Sixth; Huckabee's, on Locust. "I don't think we've exchanged many words at all," says Huckabee's Iowa campaign manager, Eric Woolson. You might have thought the holidays would have brought some occasion for communal cheer, or at least an exchange of cookies. "You're looking for the "Silent Night" 1914 story, with the Germans and the British playing soccer?" Zambenini told me when I suggested as much. "Nope...
...hasn't helped matters that earlier this month the Paul campaign paid for two former Republican legislators from Huckabee's home state of Arkansas to come to Iowa and give radio interviews attacking his record on such issues as taxes and immigration. No wonder the closest thing to a real overture between the two campaigns may be have been the day recently when a Huckabee worker came across the hall and asked whether anyone from Team Paul wanted to go shooting. "It didn't work out," says Zambenini, who adds that they did appreciate the invitation...