Candidates still fixed on Iowa despite caucus flux

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10120065

Published Friday | August 31, 2007
Candidates still fixed on Iowa despite caucus flux
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER


If Iowa's caucuses are losing any of their luster, the presidential hopefuls haven't noticed.

Florida, Michigan and Wyoming are making moves to schedule early 2008 presidential nominating contests. But that hasn't caused presidential candidates to cross Iowa off their travel plans.

Several — including Republicans Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain, and Democrats John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton — are still paying special attention to the Hawkeye State.

Romney released a new television advertisement in the state on Thursday. Edwards recently urged all campaigns to respect the traditional roles of Iowa and New Hampshire in leading off the presidential selection process.

McCain, Edwards and Clinton all plan to stump in western Iowa over the Labor Day weekend.

The senator from New York will bring her husband, former President Clinton, to a Sioux City picnic and a Des Moines labor rally. It's the second time the couple have campaigned together in Iowa, a state that Sen. Clinton says plays a strategic role in her campaign.

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[BenDavid]

1. HRC will be campaign in Iowa and

New Hampshire over the weekend with WJC. This will be one exciting weekend....

Just watched on C-span Senate channel the 1992 town hall meeting debate and the last question asked, when would there be a minority or a woman elected as President? Bush gave an incoherent answer, and Perot named many and then WJC answered and as he was answering the camera showed HRC and he said, "It would be in his lifetime" and that was 15 years okay.....

I and many others can see why the older Bush said after a question was asked years later to President Clinton and then ex president bush answered, "I can see now why I lost the election" This is something that HRC beings to her campaign. She can give answers off the top of her head and like WJC speak in such a manner that she is never talking down to folks. WJC had this attribute and so does HRC, and if you watch and listen to her answers you will see so much of WJC, and this is one of the many reasons HRC will be our nominee and the 44th President of the United States....

I do thank you
Ben David