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...nine candidates] to speak. There are about eight things that you're going to say to this group, and they've all now been said. I remember he was down after that because he just couldn't understand why it had gone so poorly. So we're flying to Iowa, and Reggie [Love, his personal assistant] and he are sitting next to each other, and I'm saying, "Senator, you just have to figure out how to enjoy this, you have to figure out how to have a little fun. Are you having any fun right now?" And he said...
Republican Johanns, raised on an Iowa dairy farm, was elected Nebraska's governor in 1998. He resigned to become President Bush's Secretary of Agriculture in 2005, then resigned that post in 2007 to run for--and win--this Senate seat, vacated by Chuck Hagel...
...hard to imagine Hillary Clinton ever playing just a supporting role. She is now both a smaller and a larger figure than when she set out on her first presidential-campaign swing through frigid Iowa nearly two years ago. And that puts her at something of a crossroads. "She's not who she was before she ran, when everyone deferred to her as a former First Lady and a President-in-waiting," says a prominent Democratic strategist. While she didn't achieve the Clinton Restoration, Hillary emerged from that race as the symbol of a movement that has come...
...Both Republicans and Democrats in Iowa report smooth sailing so far but appear reluctant to sound too cocky. They haven't heard of any major complaints at polling places and are concentrating on turning out voters. "Everything is going smoothly," says Nathan Treloar, the Iowa Republican Party's communications director. There have been reports of lines, especially in more densely populated precincts early in the morning, he says. Republicans have been busy doing the "bare basics, getting out there, contacting voters that we need to turn out and double-checking absentee requests that have not been returned," he says...
...Iowa Democratic Party Press Secretary Brooke Borkenhagen declined to directly address whether high turnout benefits her candidate. She pointed to the strong support and organization built for Barack Obama during the Iowa caucuses, saying "that has carried over." But she quickly added that the campaign's focus right now is on voters. "We are just really encouraged by our volunteer efforts - we are focused on that exclusively, knocking on doors, making phone calls, turning people out," she said. - By Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines...