In Iowa, Clinton reprises her New York campaigning
For a New York political reporter, it was like deja vu all over again, seeing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton work her way through the crowd at a state fair and sample some of the countless artery-clogging goodies.
Only this time, the state fair was in Des Moines, Iowa, rather than Syracuse.
I joined Clinton (see today's front page story) on her two-day midweek swing through Iowa, which will hold caucuses next Jan. 14 to select the first delegates to the 2008 Democratic convention. Then I joined her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, for two Iowa campaign events on Thursday.
And a visit to a state fair was by no means the only parallel I found between Clinton's two U.S. Senate campaigns in New York state and her current front-running presidential bid.
For example, when Clinton met with labor leaders in Iowa on Wednesday, she said this:
"We need a source of new jobs. That's why I'm so strongly in favor of investing in new alternative energy and dealing with global warming because I think we can create five million new green-collar jobs."
Sound familiar?
--Jerry Zremski
