2008 Election Coverage

Hillary camp: ‘ignore Iowa’ memo is leaked

May 25th, 2007

Hillary Clinton was embarrassed today after an ‘ignore Iowa’ memo was leaked to the media Americas. Her super-organised, impeccably on-message campaign for the White House has suffered a first embarrassment with the leak of an internal memo that urges her to skip the key early caucuses in Iowa - on the ground she has better places to spend money than on a contest she may well lose. I had no idea that early polls have her running third there. It’s kind of the reverse of the rest of the country. They have it Edwards, Obama, Clinton. We’ll see how it shakes out but they are certainly downplaying the importane of Iowa.

Yesterday, Clinton aides were playing down the memo as the unsolicited musings of a minion, which had never been seen by the lady herself and her most senior advisers. They insisted she would make a major effort in Iowa, whose caucuses - set for 14 January next year - traditionally kick off the primary season.

“It’s not the opinion of the campaign,” Ms Clinton herself said in response to a question about the memo, and “It’s not my opinion.”

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