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biden in iowa: up close to anti-war democrats
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BIDEN_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-15-09-02-32DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden's visit to this politically influential heartland state is bringing him up close to his own party's opposition to the White House's endorsement of possible military action against Syria.
Biden was to headline a Sunday fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, an annual steak picnic for a lawmaker who's popular with anti-war Democrats.
Even if Biden sidesteps talk of Syria, the issue was shaping up to be as much a part of the backdrop as the bales of hay and smoke from the grilling steaks, and in a state where he will have to have a strong early presence should he seek the presidency in 2016.
"That's going to be a little sensitive," Richard Machacek, a delegate for Barack Obama in 2008, said in reference to the threat of U.S. military action against Syria. "It flies in the face of what the president campaigned on here."