Gearing up for Iowa
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- January
- 25
No sooner had the Des Moines Register questioned whether Hillary Clinton had the staff needed to win Iowa, than the senator’s presidential campaign staff sent this bulletin.
Her Iowa operation will be led by veteran Iowa operative JoDee Winterhof.
“Fourth-generation Iowan is veteran of numerous campaigns in the state,” the press release trumpeted.
Plus Winterhof served as U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s chief-of-staff from 1999 to 2003, and worked on his presidential campaign.
Which is funny.
Because today, David Yepsen, a political columnist at the Register wrote this: “And since her husband bypassed Iowa in 1992 because Tom Harkin was running, her national operation may be long on people with experience in New Hampshire primaries but no depth in Iowa caucus fights.”
He also cites a new poll released Wednesday. Democrats likely to attend caucuses gave former U.S. Sen. John Edwards 25 percent of the vote, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, 17 percent, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, 16, and Clinton 15.
Clinton goes to Iowa this weekend and New Hampshire next.
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