Democrats' Big Guns Are Called In
FORT DODGE, Iowa — John F. Kerry brought a Kennedy here Saturday to help on the campaign trail. Howard Dean had Al Gore and Iowa's most influential Democrat at his side. Dick Gephardt planned to counter with a Kennedy of his own later in the week.
Eight days before the Jan. 19 caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates fanned out across Iowa to rally supporters, elbow their way into local news coverage and plead with the undecided partisans who will help settle what looks to be a tight contest.
To cover 99 counties in a state that spans the broad plains between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, the leading contenders called in surrogates, political celebrities and grass-roots troops from labor unions, college campuses and neighboring states.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) joined with Kerry, his home-state colleague, in a swing through eastern Iowa aboard a bus dubbed the Real Deal Express.
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