County conventions in Iowa tomorrow -- Edwards' 14 caucus delegates courted to switch allegiance...

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The Des Moines Register today published an article on the 99 Iowa county conventions taking place tomorrow (3/15). As the second stage in the process to select delegates to the national convention in Denver, Iowa's county conventions could change the official caucus delegate count for Iowa. See below for the first few paragraphs, but the article deals in more detail with Edwards' delegates later on. (The majority of Edwards' delegates, 14 of 26, were won in the Iowa caucuses)


Des Moines Register
March 14, 2008


The process of selecting Iowa's delegates to the Democratic National Convention resumes Saturday at the state's county conventions.

With Barack Obama narrowly ahead of Hillary Clinton in an all-out scrap for national delegates, these typically pro-forma events now have historic interest and new meaning.

The 99 conventions could put one candidate on course for a greater share of Iowa's 57 delegates than was projected on caucus night.
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These conventions are not expected to produce seismic shifts in the presidential nominating race or put either Clinton or Obama on course to win the 2,025 delegates required to secure the nomination.

But in a race that has shifted in the past 10 weeks from a battle for early momentum to a state-by-state war for delegates, the conventions give Iowans another chance to affect the race.

"It's like we're running the caucuses again, just with a smaller number of people," said Tom Henderson, chairman of the Polk County Democratic Party.

For the first time, candidates have hired staff to whip up turnout to county conventions.

Teams of paid and volunteer workers have spent weeks contacting the 13,485 delegates elected on caucus night. In some cases, they are trying to sway those who supported former Sen. John Edwards, who quit the race Jan. 30.


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