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...made Iowa so important, anyway? Four years ago, the ambitious Governor of another small state dismissed Iowa and its clumsy caucuses as a waste of time. "If you look at the caucuses system, they are dominated by the special interests in both parties, [and] the special interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people," Vermont's then governor Howard Dean said on an obscure Canadian public-affairs program. The caucuses can stretch on all night, Dean noted, and he expressed wonderment that average people would even bother with them: "I can't stand there and listen...
...Iowa returned the favor. Since making those comments--unearthed last week by NBC News (part of a mountain of Dean's earlier television appearances that the Bush-Cheney campaign has also been poring over)--Dean has been one of Iowa's most frequent visitors. He has made 103 trips there since February 2002. Everything he said about the caucuses was true--and still is--but as it turns out, some of those very characteristics proved the making of Howard Dean. In his unlikely transition from underfunded obscurity to the front of the Democratic pack, Iowa was where he found both...
Dean and Sharpton were joined by Ohio Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich and former Illinois senator Carol Moseley Braun, while the other Democratic hopefuls asked to have their names taken off the ballot in hopes of not stirring up controversy with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, which have traditionally hosted the nation’s first primaries...
...defended the decision to challenge the traditions so coveted by Iowa and New Hampshire...
...Tradition? Slavery was tradition. The civil rights movement…came because people ignored the tradition and changed the status quo,” Williams said. “We are not so much interested in our role in the electoral process or being ahead of Iowa or New Hampshire. What’s motivating us is getting on the national stage in the need for full representation. That’s the point we are making...