Published January 18, 2004
The New York Times Magazine
The job pays 60 bucks for less than two hours' work, which is why eight ordinary Iowans are willing to come, a week before Christmas, to a dingy strip plaza on the outskirts of Des Moines to answer questions from a man they have never met. The five women and three men, seated around a table in an oppressive little room with fluorescent lights, have only two things in common: they all plan to vote in Iowa's Democratic presidential caucuses, and each one is still trying to figure out which candidate to vote for.
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