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Clinton: Iowa a "special burden" for campaign
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 Clinton: Iowa a "special burden" for campaign
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is adopting a unique strategy to tamp down expectations she'll win the Iowa caucuses - suggesting that sexism will create a glass ceiling in the Hawkeye State.In an interview with The Des Moines Register, Clinton singled out Iowa and Mississippi as two states that have never elected top officials who are women. She called Iowa a "special burden" for her campaign and said it was her "hardest" state.
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WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is adopting a unique strategy to tamp down expectations she'll win the Iowa caucuses - suggesting that sexism will create a glass ceiling in the Hawkeye State.In an interview with The Des Moines Register, Clinton singled out Iowa and Mississippi as two states that have never elected top officials who are women. She called Iowa a "special burden" for her campaign and said it was her "hardest" state."I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress," she told the paper Monday. "There has got to be something at work here."Dianne Bystrom, director of the Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University, says Clinton's statement was accurate - but probably an attempt to deflate expectations she'll take the state easily."Politics is an expectations game and Hillary's not the only one playing it," said Bystrom, whose center hosts Clinton today.Clinton has jumped out to a slight lead in Iowa in recent weeks after being locked in a three-way tie with John Edwards and Barack Obama.
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