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

“This whole place goes a bit crazy around caucus time. I love it, because you get to see all these normally quiet, placid midwesterners get more and more heated as the evening goes on.”
2 hours and 51 minutes to go!!

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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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Part of the reason we are doing this trip NOW, for THIS election, is that it’s the closest and most exciting primary race in decades. Precedents and predictions are crumbling like a giant political stock cube. Received wisdom is being returned to sender, unopened.
The only certainty that existed during this autumn’s phoney war was Hillary […]

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