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...strategists in December, they laid a daunting figure before him: $1 million a month. That's how much he would have to raise over the next year to make a bid for the nomination. With half a dozen states expected to hold their primaries within a month of the Iowa caucuses, candidates have to be running a national campaign by this fall. That means they need to start lining up donors now who can write the maximum $2,000 checks allowed under the campaign-finance...
...Pander with a Drawl Candidates are wasting no time in building their operations in states that matter. Steve Hildebrand, who ran Iowa for Gore, had pledged his loyalties to Daschle; within an hour of the Senate minority leader's announcement that he was opting out, Hildebrand had already got recruitment feelers from three other candidates...
...also important to master the fine points of fitting in locally. As a seasoned operative notes, if you're in Iowa you have to know when the Jell-O is being served as a salad and when it's a dessert. And no one can afford to ignore South Carolina, which is expected to hold its primary the first week of February, a week after New Hampshire. South Carolina may be the most crucial test--one that will show which candidate appeals most to moderates, Southerners and African Americans. Such attention is new for a state accustomed to being overlooked...
...which suggests that however wide the field, the fight for the nomination could be all but over only weeks after the Iowa caucuses. "It won't be the distance runner who wins," says former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, a Daschle strategist. "This time it's the sprinter." At this rate, they will all be exhausted before the starting...
...brain structures; others freeze-frame the ever shifting activity of nerve cells as they fire and subside. With this information, doctors are beginning to understand--at the level of the neuron--how mental illnesses occur. "Brain imaging," says Dr. Nancy Andreasen, a leading schizophrenia researcher at the University of Iowa and the MIND Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., "has changed the face of psychiatry...