Should Hillary Have Skipped Iowa?

Politico:

Should Hillary Clinton have skipped Iowa?

If she loses the caucus here Thursday, will her campaign wish it had listened to the advice it got last May to take a hike on the Hawkeye state?

Back then, Clinton's deputy campaign manager, Mike Henry, wrote a 1,500-word internal memo saying Iowa was not worth the effort.

"My recommendation is to pull completely out of Iowa and spend the money and Senator Clinton's time on other states," Henry wrote.

"If she walks away from Iowa she will devalue Iowa -- our consistently weakest state."

Henry's advice was never accepted.

After the memo was leaked to the press, the Clinton campaign publicly repudiated the memo and said it would compete fiercely in Iowa, which it has.

But Iowa has long been a weak spot for Clinton.

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Comments

[hellochicago]

When you get right down to it, I need Hillary Clinton as my President like I need Mike Tyson as my mailman. Whatever strengths that she has. I don't really care about and certainly DO NOT want her representing me or MY COUNTRY ~ EVER. She was a crappy first lady… and a crappy WIFE. When the President needs the FULL support of a Laura Bush or Jackie Kennedy type at his side - who needs a Hillary to have her own agenda and leveraging her husbands clout to try to "shove" her dubious master plan through to the public. Hers is not the agenda of the people… and SHAME on the great state New York for bringing her into your Senate - what has she done for YOU ? The reality is if she did not get the NY seat, we know that she would have pandered for Arkansas then Illinois till she did steal a Senate seat for herself - but ultimately who does she represent other than herself? I simply don't TRUST her, and I don't LIKE her. Any-who… thank you, God … for steering us away from Hillary Clinton in Iowa.

[SteveL]

It would be nice if the mainstream news media skipped Iowa. A small state where a small percentage of people will chose the next loser. Along with New Hampshire these two states continue to be publicity pigs that just once need to go to the end of the line