'It's kind of like a nail biter': As Iowa caucus near, voters say it's anyone's game by blrshepherd
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Just days before the critical Iowa caucuses, it appears many voters in the state have yet to agree on second-and-third-choice candidates, in a race already fraught with indecision on who might pull ahead and win it all.
This is part of why candidates or their surrogates have been crisscrossing Iowa to plead with voters that they are reasonable enough to be considered in caucus-goers top roster. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who’s considered one of the in-state frontrunners, sprinted across 40 events in 18 days, while entrepreneur and mid-tier candidate Andrew Yang netted 50 events across the state in just over two weeks.
Story continuesBut Yang’s assumption that his supporters are unified might be off-base; at a town hall in Davenport Wednesday evening, locals weren’t close to making up their minds. Yang volunteers from out of state assisted in the last-ditch Iowa pitch. At least that’s what motivated Dallas small business owner Angela Hildenson to fly to Davenport and attempt to convince Iowans who trickle into this event to caucus for Yang. While not able to participate herself, Hildenson hopes to convince the Iowans she meets to get behind Yang — and reluctantly admits that she would “probably support” another candidate if the tech entrepreneur were not viable beyond the early states.
She says that there is a “lot of indecision” among her peers due, in part, to political burnout. “My politically active friends are hooked, but the rest are up in the air.” As long as that choice doesn’t include Sanders, Steyer, Bloomberg or Biden, who she sees as “old white guys who need a hobby.” But that same indecision makes her nervous. “A lot of people are saying ‘Oh, what's Iowa going to do?’ So, we want to get it right.” As Allison was answering, Liz Webster, a 67-year-old caucus-goer and Klobuchar organizer in Warren County, interrupted and challenged Allison: Why would she go “so far left” from someone so moderate? Webster was dubious about Warren and Sanders’s “socialist” policies and urged Allison to consider her own rankings.
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Everything You Need To Know About How The Iowa Caucuses WorkI’m a San Francisco-based reporter covering breaking news at Forbes. Previously, I’ve reported for USA Today, Business Insider, The San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Inside. I studied journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and was an editor at The Daily Orange, the university’s independent student newspaper. Follow me on Twitter rachsandl or shoot me an email rsandlerforbes.com.
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