COUNCIL BLUFFS — The O’Malley contingent looked awkward. A cute young couple recently moved from Nebraska, a hunched-over retired school teacher, a 25-year-old Mexican American, a slightly dazed elderly hippie in a heavy purple hooded sweatshirt, a handsome middle-aged married couple, and a sharp-looking elderly lady named Lois.

While the dozens of Sanders supporters and Hillary backers manned desks and sat in chairs, the O’Malley group stood out in the open — eight Iowa Democrats clustered together.

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