1.0 link 84893 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ames/obama-prospects-for-votes_b_84893.html BOISE, ID--There are 230 miles and a whole-lotta-nothin' separating Boise, Idaho from Elko, Nevada. Along those wind-swept desert roads, Barack Obama's campaign found its Western logic, an unconventional strategy responsible for this weekend's massive Boise rally. Before dawn on Saturday, 10 percent of the city's voting-age public was out of bed and standing in sub-freezing lines converging on Boise State's Taco Bell Arena.

As the most conservative state in the West, Idaho is routinely ignored, politically...

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