DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
‘Fired up!’
‘Ready to go!’
‘Fired up!’
‘Ready to go!’
200 young people are engaged in call-and-response chanting with each other, crammed in to the corner of the canteen of the Iowa City Senior Citizens Center. In the opposite corner, 30 or so senior citizens wait blankly for the noise to subside, occasionally shaking their heads [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
As the vital hour approaches, the clamour of candidates hoping that Iowa will kick-start their push for the White House has reached new levels of intensity. In Iowa City, or ‘Berkeley on the prairie’ as a local politics professor describes it to me, the final two days before the caucus have witnessed [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
“Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about” (Amy Archer, The Hudsucker Proxy)
Here’s the latest polling for Iowa.
But polling schmolling. Marlene the clinical scientist from the Hillary Clinton rally last night seemed to be for Clinton – she clapped along in all the right places, wore the [...]

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With less than three weeks left until the Iowa caucus on 3 January (and a whopping 46 weeks until the actual election itself in November) the candidates on both sides are desperately jockeying for position. If you can lock up Iowa and New Hampshire, you get the much-vaunted ‘big mo’(mentum), which may sound silly, but [...]

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For those of you in the UK who never knew, and those of you in the USA who forgot.
The election for President is usually between two candidates: one Democrat, and one Republican. Except when it isn’t. But let’s just say it is.
That lucky Democrat and that lucky Republican are officially chosen by representatives of each [...]

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