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Tuesday, February 9, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Weather a factor in Iowa caucuses
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Campaign rhetoric took a back seat to car pools yesterday, as months of campaigning ended and supporters of the presidential candidates turned to the crucial task of getting people to the caucuses on a fried snowy evening
"That's the guts of what happens in this state in terms of this caucus process," said Pat Mitchell, who runs the Iowa campaign of Illinois Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. "It is so different than a primary. We're no longer trying to find new people. We're trying to make sure our people
Campaigners ensure turnout by taxiing voters in snow
get there."
In 2,487 Iowa precincts, Republicans and Democrats were gathering in churches, fire stations and living rooms for an exercise in democracy that's part drama and part high camp.
"To the untrained eye, it will look like mass confusion," said Iowa Democratic Party spokesman Phil Roeder. "It's a gathering of friends
and neighbors who sit down and decide who they want to be the next president of the United States."
Rhonda Menke, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Republican Party, said, "There are very few rules that apply. A caucus is a neighborhood meeting of Republican people who may not be registered Republicans, who just drop by this public meeting."
The state's caucuses are the beginning of the process of picking delegates to the national nominating conventions.
Because the process can be tedious, backers must make a commitment to spend several hours at a neighborhood meeting, and among Democrats, stand up and be counted in front of their neighbors.
So candidates must do more than win support. They must inspire loyalty and commitment, or they must physically deliver their backers to the caucuses.
Republicans
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I'm reaching out to all Americans." In New Hampshire, Bush said he was "not bitter because I think there was some anticipation of that. Look, I wanted to do better. But I'm a "gutter, I'm going to come back."
Dole, who campaigned in Iowa
with the theme, "he's one of us," ran far ahead of the field in the non-binding straw vote that was the first order of business at GOP precinct caucuses that were the first major electoral test of the 1988 campaign
man of Dole's Iowa campaign, hailed the senator's victory but focused just as much on Bush's defeat.
Sen. Charles Grassley, a co-chair-
"I think it mortally wounds him," the Iowa senator said.
many as 125,000 people would attend his party's caucuses and it became clear almost immediately that the turnout was heavy.
Republican Party chairman Michael Mahaffey predicted that as
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