Iowa Presents steepest hill for Clinton

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Clinton may have another problem in Iowa.

"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here," she said, theorizing it may be the risk-averse nature of a state built around agriculture.

"I think not only do I have to bring people to me, I have to maybe reassure people here maybe more than I do in New Hampshire, which has had a woman governor," she said.

"I think Iowa poses a special burden, or a special obstacle to me because when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."

"As well as I do, I still have to go over a much higher hurdle in Iowa than anybody else," Clinton said. (Obama may quarrel with that. Iowa's black population is only 2.1 percent.)

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071023/OPINION01/710230367

[silverojo]

1. Now SHE'S playing the gender card?

Pathetic. It's not about your ovaries, Hillary--it's about your stance on the war.

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2. got a few women upset in MS

seems the women leaders of MS have taken some offense to these words