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...spending rates became a particular point of focus in January after the Senate Finance Committee, led by its ranking member, Iowa Republican Charles E. Grassley, sent questionnaires to the nation’s 136 wealthiest universities asking for information on endowment growth and spending, as well as tuition and financial...
...standing in the back room of the Hillary Clinton for President headquarters in Dubuque, Iowa with some volunteers and a field organizer, Elliot, who had been canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for months. The Iowa caucuses were days away, and I had flown in with Institute of Politics Forum Director Bill White to help out with the final push...
...More strikingly, Hillary Clinton’s comeback candidacy—from an Iowa defeat to a New Hampshire triumph—has deterred a dangerous trend in media reporting, in which commentators frequently injected prognostications into coverage. After Iowa, the media cognoscenti began writing obituaries for her candidacy. Colorful commentators such as Chris Matthews effectively anointed Senator Obama the nominee, prompting his NBC colleague Tom Brokaw to accuse the media of “stampeding” the electoral process. Yet Senator Clinton’s perseverance turned such commentary on its head, prompting many reporters to deemphasize polling...
Obama’s supporters at the Law School also emphasized the racial significance of the milestone. Mack noted that Obama’s campaign was able to triumph in predominantly white states like Iowa (which is 96 percent white) and Montana (which is 0.5 percent black...
...aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...