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...Albright to go on his behalf. “The Senator concluded that elections are the appropriate place to compete and transitions are for preparing for the future rather than preempting authority at the moment.” Leach spent 30 years as a U.S. representative from Iowa before serving as the IOP’s interim director last year. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Despite coming from the other side of the political aisle, Leach publicly supported Obama during the presidential election. Leach declined...
...Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principal rival in Iowa, receives the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a congratulatory phone call after Huckabee beat the odds to win the Iowa caucuses, "which we took as a sign of total disrespect." He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. "Let them eat stocks!" Huckabee jokes...
...eschewed that strategy and instead found its standard bearer in its industrial Rust Belt roots, a place where Obama's reputation and early ground game could have maximum impact. It was no accident that on election night, Obama captured six of the states that ring Illinois, including three - Ohio, Iowa and Indiana - that John Kerry lost in 2004. (Obama lost adjacent Missouri by less than 5,000 votes...
...been decided, the focus is shifting from the campaign to the administration. “The Barack Obama who spoke at [Chicago’s] Grant Park on the night of the election was a different Barack Obama,” said Tom Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa who is rumored to be in the running for agriculture secretary. “It was an individual who realized that the weight of the world rested on his shoulders.” The fellows said that Obama should focus his attention on the economy and refrain from shifting...
...Following Shaheen’s resignation, former Iowa Representative Jim Leach served as interim director while the IOP searched for a permanent successor...