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SIOUX CITY – Erin Pope, a 29-year-old toy store clerk wearing both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stickers on her shirt in Sioux City Monday, is just the person Mrs. Clinton intends to reach in the next four months before the Iowa caucuses.
Pope was one of a estimated 3,800 people at a Monday rally here sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Labor Council – with a healthy dose of Woodbury Democratic Party influence in the mix.
And for her part, Pope is on the fence with Obama and Clinton, One day, like, well, Monday, it’s Hillary, fresh off the inspirational speech, Pope acknowledged. “Today, I’d probably vote for Hillary.”
But on Thursday
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