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“I better vote for Barack first,” said Dave Loebsack as he accepted a coffee bean from the cashier at Iowa City’s Hamburg Inn.
The 2nd District congressman made the pilgrimage Tuesday to the old-fashioned diner which is a well-known stop for presidential and local politicians. His main opponent, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, made the stop in August.
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Barack Obama and Ron Paul were the two winners in the Hamburg Inn’s Coffee Bean Caucus, held at the politically famous Iowa City diner.

Hamburg Inn patrons could vote as many times as they visited the diner by dropping a coffee bean into their candidate’s jar.  The Coffee Bean Caucus was featured on TV’s “The West [...]

Iowa City’s Hamburg Inn No. 2 is renowned for its good ol’-fashioned comfort food, milkshakes and campaign appearances. Sisters Molly and Colleen Kinder got a taste of all three when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stopped in Sunday afternoon.

“We had no idea Mitt Romney was going to show up here,” Molly said. “In fact, we [...]

At a stop at Iowa City’s Hamburg Inn, Chris Dodd told Iowa Independent that “third or fourth” would be a good showing in Iowa, but “first is best.”

David Osterberg and Jim Larew with Dodd

Dodd spent close to an hour at the politically famous diner, offering no speech but speaking with every one of about 50 [...]