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...House." For Bruce Babbitt and Gary Hart, the Iowa returns meant seats in the balcony at the Democratic Convention. Garnering just 6%, Babbitt left Iowa with a sad smile and a stack of glowing press clippings. Hart registered nary a beat; there were giggles in one north Des Moines precinct when no one stood up to support...
...once The Great White Defendant, The Big Story and The Political Boon. McCoy is dehumanized by the judicial process, and by the system that had served him so well before. He is thrown to a pack of hungry press animals, anxiously waiting in front of the precinct house to tear McCoy apart as he is arrested. The circus arrest is followed by the drama of a holding tank, complete with sinister Bronx criminal types, rats and other indignities to Sherman McCoy's person. By the time McCoy is arraigned, the Master of the Universe has become the scum...
...MOINES, Iowa-Vice President George Bush backed off yesterday from charges his campaign has been leveling at chief GOP presidential rival Kansas Sen. Robert Dole as candidates of both parties began cooling their rhetoric on the eve of Iowa's crucial precinct caucuses...
...night will gather up her sugar cookies, spread a little cream-cheese frosting on them and go on down to the Raccoon Valley State Bank's community room in Adel, a town rejuvenated by yuppies who live there and work in Des Moines. She will meet precinct Co-Chairwoman Jean Siegrist, and they will check the coffeemaker, open up the doors and wait for their fellow Republicans to arrive. When the greetings are over, they will bring the caucus to order and ask their neighbors to cast the secret ballot that is the crucial straw vote on the presidential candidates...
...best current example -- and pressure candidates to lavish attention on small, well-organized interest groups. In the actual caucuses, less than 15% of enrolled Iowa voters usually participate, and the reported results are sometimes misleading. Drake University Professor Hugh Winebrenner, in a new book on the caucuses, The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event (Iowa State University Press; $15.95), points out that even if his state were a microcosm of the country, the peculiar machinery fails to produce an accurate measure of Iowans' sentiments. "Essentially meaningless caucus outcomes," he argues, "are reported to satisfy the media...