The Iowa Effect

By The Daily Dish

A reader writes:

I've been campaigning for Obama in California. Today (Saturday) I went to a training session for Precinct Captains. When I signed up on Tuesday, there were 12 people registered to attend. On Friday, after Iowa, there were 137.

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