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Article: Candidates are dreaming the Jimmy Carter Iowa dream
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- November 5, 2007
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Nearly 33 years ago in the tiny northwest Iowa
town of Le Mars, a just-retired, one-term governor of Georgia spoke
at a testimonial dinner for the local county recorder. His pay was a
free pizza, a movie pass and a coupon for a car wash.
Jimmy Carter went on from there to the presidency, catapulted into
national attention by running first among better-known Democrats in
the 1976 Iowa precinct caucuses.
Actually, Carter ran behind "Uncommitted" in the caucuses with a
mere 27.6 percent of the vote, but that was twice as much as any
other Democrat. A few weeks later, he won the New Hampshire primary,
first in the nation, and was on his way.
Ever since, presidential candidates ...