Her vaunted field organization performed as expected. But she didn't. But her dancing sticker-boy, Peter Clinkscales was in his own state of Nirvana.
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. . . “ 'Since 2008, Clinton’s people have been pretty smart about putting together a really first-rate organization,” says Jeff Link, a Des Moines-based consultant with close ties to Harkin, long the state’s dominant Democrat, told POLITICO last month. “In the last eight years she gained all this experience at the State Department, which is great. But experience is not something voters are dying for right now.”
"The importance of winning in Iowa was twofold - back in the spring, the Clinton campaign hoped to defeat its primary challengers as quickly as possible and avoid a 50-state primary that would ding up the candidate with attacks before she entered a general election battle. And psychologically for Clinton, a victory here would free her from her stinging third-place finish eight years ago."
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