IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa was the state that made Barack Obama. He pushed Hillary Clinton into third place in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses and went on to win the swing state in the general election that year and again when he was reelected in 2012.
It was in Iowa that Oprah Winfrey anointed Obama as “the One” and his victories in the predominantly white rural state deep in “flyover” country seemed to usher in a new era not just for the Democratic Party but also for the United States, which for the first time elected a black man to the White House.
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