Ex-S. Floridian candidate shops in Iowa
Iowa's importance and small size let one Floridian-turned-Iowan see many candidates.
Posted on Thu, Jan. 03, 2008
By BREANNE GILPATRICK
bgilpatrick@MiamiHerald.com
As a longtime Democratic activist, former Hollywood resident Cindy Sherr is accustomed to Florida elections decided by fundraisers, television advertisements and candidates' brief visits to South Florida's condo canyons.
Then, she moved to Iowa about six months before the most talked-about presidential election in decades. And when she found herself torn among Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards the day before the Iowa caucus, she did what a lot of her fellow Iowans have done: She opened the newspaper, turned to the schedule of campaign events and started driving.
Republican and Democratic candidates hit Iowa's highways and airports Wednesday in the final push to court undecided voters before Thursday's caucuses, where their votes will kick-off the first presidential election in decades with no sitting president or vice president on the ballot.
Sherr spent the day driving across the state, past farm fields blanketed with snow and dotted with campaign signs, along with hundreds of other Iowans who wanted one last look.
''It's all retail [politics] here,'' Sherr said, noting voters can pick candidates as if they were window shopping at the mall. ``It's wonderful. And you don't even have to write a check.''
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