TAPESTRY OF SUPPORTERS
Eager to get women to caucus for him, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry belted out “[You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman” along with his friend Carole King on Wednesday evening at a free concert in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The singer-songwriter said she was annoyed by questions of what Kerry would do if he did not become president.
“Dude, there is no plan B,” King said between songs.
–Dan Mihalopoulos
CALLING IN SICK
Joe Trippi was chatting up a volunteer at Howard Dean’s Des Moines headquarters in between her calls to undecided voters one night this week. She had good news and bad news.
First the bad. “Joe, I’m getting more [Richard] Gephardt and [John] Edwards people than Dean,” Cheryl Beseler told the campaign manager for the ex-Vermont governor. Beseler, a research scientist at Colorado State University, said most of the respondents were retired union members loyal to Gephardt.
The good news for Dean: Many of them are having surgery and will be unable to attend a caucus.
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–Flynn McRoberts
MORE CHOW, LESS CHAT
Sen. Joseph Lieberman was using a lunchtime speech at the sparsely populated senior citizen center in Littleton, N.H., to drive home two seemingly polar emotions: disgust and hope.
He said he was outraged by reports that someone had been making calls to undeclared voters in New Hampshire, falsely telling them they couldn’t vote in the Jan. 27 primary because they were not officially affiliated with a party.
Then he switched themes, telling the couple of dozen senior citizens they were the “greatest generation.” He started to list all the things he believed they embodied in America.
“America is opportunity,” he said. “It’s hope. It’s hard work.”
A woman sitting at a lunch table near the front of the room interrupted the senator. “It’s hungry,” she said.