From the title I thought this post was going to revisit the cleavage thing.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> [from the LAT, as quoted by Mike Allen's Politico Playbook]
>
> Clinton gets lots of help from her friends: More than any other
> Democratic candidate, she's drawing support from outside
> organizations - money, direct mailings, even Google ads targeted to
> female voters in Iowa: Three organizations outside her campaign are
> lending a big helping hand with ... difficult and expensive tasks,
> pouring more than $2 million and an army of fresh troops into the
> last-minute push. The outside effort, much larger than any being
> mounted on behalf of a rival campaign, is led in large part by
> EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee and a
> significant force in Democratic politics. Allied with it are the
> American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the
> American Federation of Teachers. The unions are supporting pro-
> Clinton radio and television advertising and direct mail contacts
> with targeted voting groups. Separately, AFSCME has dispatched more
> than 200 paid workers to Iowa. The fly-in giv es Clinton about twice
> as many such workers in the state as rival Barack Obama, officials of
> his campaign say.
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