The Democratic National Convention isn’t until July 13, 2020, but as many as two dozen contenders are looking for an advantage in Iowa, hoping to win the most committed and connected, and calculating that animus for Trump makes their earliness welcome.
Former Rep. John Delaney , middle right, speaks to guests at the Monroe County Democrats spaghetti supper last month at a church in in Albia, Iowa. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Eric Swalwell also attended the event. Since June 28, 2017 — 1,224 days before election day — former Rep.has been campaigning for president. He’s been in Iowa, the site of the first contest of the, 24 times. He’s done 250 campaign events and already visited all of Iowa’s 99 counties.
With six offices in Iowa and 20 paid staffers, Delaney has a rationale for what might seem like an irrational undertaking. He’s so much an underdog that his only chance is a daily grind of events in remote crossroads; in the last five weeks he campaigned in two towns with fewer than 3,800 people. And while Al Smith and Hubert H. Humphrey practiced the politics of joy, Delaney’s quest might be described as the politics of perseverance.
“You have to find a better way to choose your leaders,” said Lawrence Goldman, a leading British scholar who taught American history at Oxford University. “It’s a much smaller operation here and the money is so much smaller, but we do this so much more efficiently.” In the 1960 election — the one political scientists generally mark as the beginning of modern politics — Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the eventual winner, began his campaign on the second day of the election year itself, only three days after his principal rival, Sen. Humphrey of Minnesota, announced on Dec. 30, 1959. As recently as 1968, candidate campaign announcements for Republican contenders came an average of 136 days before the nominating convention.
“The Carter campaign changed everything,” said Peter D. Hart, a veteran Democratic pollster. “It set a new pattern for how you run for president. He took advantage of being out of office, and he went right to work and spent the next two years campaigning.” It is no different in Iowa, where four years ago former Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland roamed the state looking for support, one afternoon dropping into a home in the soybean-and-corn town of Ogden for fudge brownies and cinnamon coffee cake. As he spoke, one woman stood against the kitchen cabinets knitting a multicolored dishcloth. Then the candidate played the banjo for a spell.
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