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Sarah Huckabee is desperately looking for a volunteer. It's a frigid Des Moines Sunday afternoon and the daughter of the upstart Republican presidential candidate is holding court in her new corner office above the campaign's Iowa headquarters. Her dad, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, may suddenly be a...
The first person to arrive outside Des Moines' HyVee Center on Saturday morning - a mere seven hours before Oprah Winfrey would take the stage - was Heather Spurlin. Dressed for a long wait in snowy 12-degree weather, Spurlin, 37, is exactly the kind of person Barack Obama hoped Oprah would...
Obama was making gains with Iowa women even before Oprah's arrival - a November Des Moines Register poll showed Obama topping Hillary Clinton with Iowa women for the first time, with his 31% to Clinton's 26% - and Winfrey's appearance certainly kept up the momentum. When she took the...
Other than a bit of campaign sniping between America's two most influential women - Clinton, in Des Moines on Friday: "Change is just a word if you don't have the experience to back it up"; Winfrey, defending Obama Saturday: "We recognize that the amount of time you spend in...
The real effect of Oprah on Iowa won't be known until the caucus, but in the short term her cameo appeared to achieve what the Obama campaign hoped it would. "Obama's got some really good ideas," said Spurlin at the end of the rally. "But then so does...