There was still a good deal of retail politics in the early stages of the most recent Iowa campaign.
During the Iowa campaign, however, the governor had to speak more about abortion, and more specifically, than he had hoped.
"Now Howard Dean is ending his Iowa campaign with the old style negative attack politics."
But that is to miss the point, because regardless of whether ethanol is a great fuel for cars, it certainly works wonders in Iowa campaigns.
Presidential candidates have minimally organized their Iowa campaigns - if they're organizing at all.
This data base could be of great value to local Iowa campaigns long after the 1988 elections.
He spoke almost introspectively about the impact of race on his Iowa campaign.
It is 122,000 - the number of people who actually turned out to vote in the myriad town hall meetings which constitute the Iowa primary campaign.
Nobody had bothered to attack him until the waning days of the Iowa campaign because he wasn't taken seriously.
During the Iowa campaign, he stood up for taxes; in the caucuses, who stood up for him?