DES MOINES - In the end, Iowans voted for a smile.
They chose conciliation over combat, personality over pedigree, hope over fear. They voted for the new, with fervor.
-Tribune
He goes on to say...
For John Edwards, who had almost lived in Iowa for four years, his neck-and-neck race with Clinton gives him an argument to continue, but not a strong one. Voters did not see him as the anti-Clinton. That might well have been due in large part to the fact that the buoyant optimism of his 2004 campaign was replaced by an angry populism that clearly has its limits.
I keep reposting to add more, so far this is the best article I've read on the event:
Obama entered the race with the belief that the time was right for a post-Baby Boom generation candidate who was not shaped by the defining struggles of the 1960s. It was almost post-racial, even post-political.
They chose conciliation over combat, personality over pedigree, hope over fear. They voted for the new, with fervor.
-Tribune
He goes on to say...
For John Edwards, who had almost lived in Iowa for four years, his neck-and-neck race with Clinton gives him an argument to continue, but not a strong one. Voters did not see him as the anti-Clinton. That might well have been due in large part to the fact that the buoyant optimism of his 2004 campaign was replaced by an angry populism that clearly has its limits.
I keep reposting to add more, so far this is the best article I've read on the event:
Obama entered the race with the belief that the time was right for a post-Baby Boom generation candidate who was not shaped by the defining struggles of the 1960s. It was almost post-racial, even post-political.
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