The 2008 Iowa caucus victor returned to the state Thursday to be the first to step on the Des Moines Register’s “Soapbox” for presidential candidates and quickly swing through the fairgrounds, encouraging fairgoers to try the pork chop on a stick.
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The 3-year old crossbred owned by Tom and Nancy McDonald tipped the scale at 1166 pounds.
As Hillary Clinton arrives in the Hawkeye State for a weekend packed with a town hall, a speech at the Wing Ding Dinner and a visit to the Iowa State Fair, she’s picked up a key endorsement from a beloved voice in the Iowa Democratic party.
Frequently ranked as one of the top events in the country, the Iowa State Fair is the single largest event in the state of Iowa and one of the oldest and largest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country.
Bill and Hillary Clinton addressed Democrats last year at Harkin’s annual steak fry fundraiser, his final as a senator.
Greeting voters and snacking on fried foods at the fair is all but a requirement for presidential candidates, and most of the two dozen or so in the race are expected to stop by during the 11-day affair.
Interactions between candidates and voters are often unusual.
“The caucuses are about face-to-face campaigning, and you’re going to get the biggest audience possible by walking around the fairgrounds”. The comment dogged Romney for the rest of his campaign.
The former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate has argued for overhauling the tax code by abolishing the IRS, which he called on Sunday a “criminal enterprise”, and establishing a single, flat sales tax across the board – a proposal that has drawn heat from some economists who say it would unfairly burden the poor, a claim Huckabee rejects. “There is an element here of being able to interact with an average person on a hot August day”, said Jeff Kaufmann, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa. The party plans to tout their “Field of Dreams” at a booth in the varied Industries building.
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O’Malley used his appearance at the Iowa State Fair’s political “soapbox” to touch upon a series of goals for the next president, from raising the median net worth of families to cutting the unemployment rate for young people to generating 100 percent of American electricity from renewable sources by 2050.
