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Edwards Gains Caucus4Priorities Endorsement

By Lynda Waddington 11/9/07

Caucus4Priorities, the grassroots campaign dedicated to shifting $60 million from Cold War weapons in the Pentagon to fund unmet social needs, endorsed former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards this morning.
The group, launched and organized by Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen, has organized 10,000 Iowa caucus-goers who pledged to caucus only for the presidential candidate [...]

Many Interest Groups Try to Influence the Caucuses, But Do Candidates Listen?

By Gil Cranberg 7/25/07

[Commentary] The presidential candidates converged on Iowa aren’t the only ones to sense opportunity here. Interest groups across the political spectrum see Iowa as the place to meet, greet and lobby the candidates for one cause or another. Even the Des Moines Register wants to capitalize on Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses to plug for an editorial [...]

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