Obama,Clinton Court Iowa Activists

I was just reading a story about the Supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton who are once again ardently courting Iowa Democratic activists as they vie for the support of delegates pledged to departed rival John Edwards.

Edwards finished second in the state's leadoff precinct caucuses on Jan. 3, but those caucuses are only the first step in a complicated process of picking the state's 45 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.

The next step in that process are the conventions held Saturday in each of the state's 99 counties, where 13,000 activists gathered to elect delegates to congressional district and state conventions, and sending best wishes to my friend Teresa, who is participating in the conventions, and wants to be chosen as a state delegate!!

It looks like Iowa may end up being important at the beginning and the end of this process, and how "cool" is that for our small state!!


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