Iowa focus paid off for Kerry

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Iowa focus paid off for Kerry

By Mary Beth Cahill
January 2, 2008

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For the month of December, Kerry traveled through Iowa on a bus, refused to leave events until every last question was answered, and worked to exhaustion.

Rather than attacking Dean directly, Kerry focused on a series of speeches and events laying out the first 100 days of a Kerry presidency.

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And the campaign's relentless message about the future took hold. We won.

After Kerry's victory in Iowa, he flew to New Hampshire in the middle of the night, and for the next week crisscrossed the state, hitting every small town and retail center to make up for lost time. Kerry was in rare New Hampshire form - playing hockey against a team of former Bruins, standing on street corners at rush hour to greet workers, holding town halls in every corner of the state.

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