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Everything You Thought You Knew About Iowa Is Wrong

Via Pollster, Mark Mellman has piece in The Hill analyzing the myths of Iowa that don't have to do with baseball fields and James Earl Jones, but it's an ironically idealistic form of mythbusting: He argues that message counts as much as organization, and that passion matters as much (or more) than electability. Somewhere, John Edwards is writing a thank you note...

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