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...hard to see why Brits voted it their favorite new building of the past 20 years. Similar efforts in the U.S., however, have been received less rapturously. Attempts to build an American version of Eden called Earthpark stalled for years as Midwestern cities like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, doubting the project's profitability, said no. (Tiny Pella, near Iowa City, finally said yes to Earthpark, scheduled to open...
...lack of a solid rationale for McCain's use of scarce resources in Iowa suggests that the campaign's leadership is not so much masterminding a comeback as holding on for dear life. Still, the campaign has had its moments of tactical ingenuity. After McCain's debate zinger in which he noted that he hadn't been to Woodstock because he was "tied up at the time," the campaign produced a TV ad that probably got more attention via free publicity than its paid air time. And the evening after a CNN anchor criticized McCain for playing along with...
...Which is why observers are puzzled that his campaign, currently almost $1.5 million in the red, spent another $100,000 to send 200,000 McCain flyers to potential supporters in - Iowa. He launched his health care policy rollout there and he was one of only two G.O.P. candidates who participated in AARP's debate there in September. The other was Mike Huckabee, whose attention to the state has been rewarded with a surprising jump to second place. But McCain, who has spent one out of every seven days since September in Iowa, with 11 days in total, has seen...
...McCain advisers, in explaining the campaign's Iowa rationale, bounce between the need to prove that their Iowa expenditures are money well spent and the time-honored political tradition of "managing expectations." In one five-minute conversation, campaign manager Rick Davis both boasts that McCain has the "third largest organization in the state" and says, only barely joking, "One thing I've done well as campaign manager is driving expectations in Iowa to the floorboards." Another senior adviser issues a reminder of the campaign's brush with death - "This summer you wouldn't have predicted we'd even be having...
...Senate probe is one thing. But the Charisma ad has introduced a campaign wrinkle to it: Will Huckabee, who is riding a wave of momentum and currently polling second among Republicans in Iowa prior to its caucuses, stick by Copeland and risk putting himself on the wrong side of Grassley as he forges ahead with his investigation...