How Joe Biden went from flop to front-runner in Iowa
Posted on AllSides May 1st, 2019
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The former veep failed to crack 1 percent in the 2008 caucuses. But that result didn’t accurately capture the depth of his support.
As Iowa caucus night neared in 2008, Joe Biden was outspent, outstaffed and up against tough competition: the historic candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
But Biden had consistently attracted solid crowds to his events in the run-up. An impressive number of state legislators had endorsed him. His team felt they had held their own, and entered the...
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