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“Wide Open Situation”

Branstad uses Mon. presser to "urge" candidates to hit the ground in Iowa now.

Halperin's Take

Brandstad is belatedly getting in the game publicly to try to make sure that Iowa gets its full measure of national media attention for the caucuses. His hand-picked party chairman has been doing some of that lifting, but only the governor can extract the pounds and pounds of flesh required to avoid a dilution of influence. The Iowa-New Hampshire first-in-the-nation coalition that has been formidable in the past is in tatters.
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