Word: trippiness
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...assume, because he lost to Barack Obama, that Edwards is down for the count. After all, as his campaign advisers are quick to point out, by finishing second Edwards's David can claim victory over at least one Goliath. "The person hurt in all this is Hillary Clinton," Joe Trippi, an Edwards senior advisor, told TIME minutes after his candidate claimed the silver medal in Des Moines. "The former President of the United States flew all around this state and so did she. They outspent us three-to-one at least. And we beat...
...caucus goers who don't favor him as their first choice, a key indicator in a process that can reward also-rans when third-tier candidates don't meet the 15% threshold at most caucus sites. "Its not just a question of who turns their voters out," said Joe Trippi, Edwards's campaign manager. "It's a question of who knows how to work the caucus system...
...know, they can go run their campaigns and we'll run ours," said Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to the Edwards campaign. "We're taking this thing very seriously and that people of Iowa are going to know how hard we're going to fight for every vote and what we think is at stake here and what the difference in this campaign is: that we're going to take on corporate greed for them and she's taking their money ..." and here Trippi trails off and raises his eyebrows...
Then fresh out of college and eager to tackle his first presidential race, Trippi - who has worked on every contested race in Iowa since 1980 - had organized all of Monticello's youngsters to caucus for Kennedy. His rival, Hogan, host of the county's largest caucus, had likewise organized the precinct's parents to caucus for Carter. When none of the kids dared defy their parents' wishes, Kennedy lost the precinct - and the county. "I remember being in the kitchen a few weeks before that when Ethel Kennedy came to visit our house, campaigning for Ted," James Hogan, Jr., Jimmy...
...winning the caucuses that year 59% to Kennedy's 31%. Iowans appreciated Carter's personal investment in the state, the time he spent pressing the flesh with as many caucus-goers as possible. These days the top three Democratic candidates - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards (for whom Trippi is working this cycle) - have all adhered to Carter's model, visiting a majority of Iowa's 99 counties, investing months of their lives, hundreds of staff and tens of millions of dollars each...