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...Vanderslice arrived in Iowa in December 2003 to work on religious outreach for Howard Dean's presidential campaign. The job was something of a contradiction in terms. Dean, who had left his Episcopal church over an argument concerning the placement of a bike path, often argued that campaigns should avoid subjects like "guns, God and gays" and boasted that "my religion doesn't inform my public policy." Vanderslice found herself working with advisers who wondered what she was doing there and a candidate who rarely mentioned religious groups except to attack them. "Those voters were a target," she recalled...
Obama is the first of the leading Democratic candidates to launch his television ad campaign in Iowa, the site of the first presidential primary caucus...
Another Democrat, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, has run ads in Iowa, as has a leading Republican candidate, former Gov. Mitt Romney...
...turn out to be little more than a ripple against the big interest groups and institutions that surround an Establishment favorite. In 2004, Trippi managed former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's campaign when it too was shattering fund-raising records, only to come crashing to the ground in the Iowa caucuses. While the hundreds of thousands of small donors who are jumping aboard campaigns like Obama's and Edwards' are impressive, Trippi says, "it's a small number in a country of 300 million, and a ridiculously small number compared to the number of adults who will be voting...
...once presumptive front runner's campaign finds itself struggling to survive. The operation is laying off staffers by the dozen and slashing the salaries of those who are left. Campaign manager Terry Nelson is working without pay. The campaign is narrowly refocusing itself on the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina--though the fact that McCain is cutting back his field operations in those states will make the challenge steeper. He is also considering accepting presidential matching funds, a move that could give him $6 million in much needed funds but also require him to become...