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Transcript: Interview: David Yepsen gives historical background to Iowa caucuses
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- January 19, 2004
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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
01-19-2004
Interview: David Yepsen gives historical background to Iowa caucuses
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
The Iowa caucuses have at least a whiff of quaint American antiquity about them, something suggesting the political equivalent of a barn raising or a quilting bee. So perhaps it's a little disappointing to think that they never counted for much until 1972, not exactly Victorian times. In fact, the heyday of the Iowa caucuses is of such recent vintage that David Yepsen, formerly reporter, now political columnist for The Des Moines Register, has covered the Iowa caucuses for just about as long as they have ...