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...take one more step and you'll be sorry," Jimmy Hogan, a precinct caucus captain for Jimmy Carter in Monticello, Iowa, bellowed across his living room at his daughter. And with her prompt pirouette, all hopes of seeing Ted Kennedy elected President died. The year was 1980 and Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist for Ted Kennedy, had learned a crucial lesson: The Iowa caucuses are as much about group psychology - and sometimes the deference of a child to her parent - as they are about politics...
Facing celebrity candidates endowed with hundreds of millions of dollars, the one thing Joe Biden may have going for him with only days to go before the Iowa caucuses are low expectations. For most of the campaign, few pundits or members of the media have given the Delaware Senator much of a chance of having a respectable showing in Iowa. "The people that come out of here are going to be the ones that beat the expectations that [the media sets], it could be four people, it could be three people," Biden told TIME on Monday. "The plain old politician...
...particularly seen people coming from the Edwards camp and the Clinton camp," said Rusky. "The Clinton people are starting to realize that Joe Biden is really the most electable candidate, the one guy who can take on the Republicans on national security. And I think with Edwards, you know we compete with John Edwards for the Iowans, you know the traditional Iowa caucus-goers and I think at this stage we've really opened up the field. They find Joe Biden is more authentic, and closer to them in terms of their philosophy...
Most candidates have heeded those concerns. Edwards, a former North Carolina Senator, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and Delaware Senator Joe Biden all plan to spend the holiday privately with their families in Des Moines, after campaigning during the day. Senator Chris Dodd will hold a low-key gathering in Dubuque. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is expected to spend the evening with his wife, Anne, and other family members in Waterloo. And former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has planned several events during the day, finishing up in the Des Moines area - but his staff is still trying to decide what...
...gift was in turning the intensely personal into radio gold. The breakout album for singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg was the 1974 Joe Walsh-produced Souvenirs. Its confessional soft-rock hit, Part of the Plan, was the first of a string of emotional, radio-friendly tunes, including Leader of the Band, written for his bandleader father, and Same Old Lang Syne, about a chance meeting with an old girlfriend. By the end of the decade, he was an icon for sensitive souls everywhere. (Comedian Denis Leary joked that his adolescent admiration for Fogelberg hindered his success with girls.) Fogelberg discovered...