Monday, December 5, 2011

What Happened to the Vaunted Iowa Campaign? : Roll Call Politics

What Happened to the Vaunted Iowa Campaign? : Roll Call Politics: If a presidential campaign organizes an Iowa operation, and no one hears about it, does it make a sound the night of the caucuses?

Some White House contenders are betting the answer is yes as they casually — or in many cases haphazardly — cobble together campaigns this month in the Hawkeye State.

For the past few decades, presidential hopefuls made a show of their Iowa campaigns, boasting local endorsements and flashing extensive lists of chairmen from the state’s 99 counties, backers who will be ready to turn out supporters for that candidate at the caucuses.

But this cycle, campaigns aren’t playing the traditional ground game.


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