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Last December, prior to the start of the primary elections and caucuses, every poll showed Senator Hillary Clinton leading all other Democratic Party candidates who were running for president of the United States. There seemed to be a sense of inevitability about her candidacy, which caused her campaign to underestimate the challenge put up by Senator Barack Obama.
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As a result, going into the Iowa caucuses in early January, the Hillary campaign apparatus was not as well organized as Obama's. Hillary's advisers were so ambivalent about competing in Iowa that they even considered skipping that state altogether. Since Democrats in ...