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Strategy on the Campaign Trail in Iowa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Henry E. Brady*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Extract

We expect to find calculating, even Machiavellian, politicians in Cook County, Illinois or Placquemines Parish, Louisiana. It comes as something of a surprise to find them in Johnson County, Iowa, but with the quadrennial recurrence of the Iowa caucuses lowans become subtle calculators of their own advantage. Around caucus time, Iowa is a land of political strategists.

In the following pages, I summarize my notes from several days spent observing the strategies of politicians, the media, and citizens in Iowa in 1988.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1988

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