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Iowa Factoid

By The Daily Dish

Jan 3 2008, 2:39 AM ET

Dick Polman:

Incumbents aside, exactly one victorious Iowa candidate - George W. Bush in 2000 - has ever gone on to win the presidency in the same year. Even though Carter got an historic boost in Iowa, on the way to his November election, he actually finished second in Iowa - behind "Uncommitted."



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