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Politics_Guy25 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 10:33 AM
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In retrospect, should Hillary have withdrawn from the Iowa Caucuses if she wanted to win?
Edited on Mon Jun-09-08 10:33 AM by RMP2008
I've read multiple post-mortems on the Clinton campaign this weekend and a common theme is that the advice proposed by her deputy campaign manager to withdraw from Iowa was correct in retrospect. Iowa was always a tough state for her and she bankrupted her campaign trying to double down on a win there. In fact, a large part of her campaign finance flow problems resulted because she spent so heavily in Iowa. The articles also suggest that if she had withdrawn, Senator Edwards probably would have won Iowa, not Senator Obama. I am not sold on that at all especially after Senator Obama's performance at the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Iowa. If she had withdrawn, however, her campaign's aura of inevitability would not have been lost and Senator Obama would not have gained as much national momentum as it did due to Iowa. The first 4 primary states would have split with Clinton winning 2, Nevada and New Hampshire, Edwards winning Iowa, and Obama winning South Carolina. The chaos might have helped Senator Clinton to have performed better on Super Tuesday.

I think it was a great strategic blunder to participate in Iowa and may have cost her the nomination. What do you all think?
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