Iowans only
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 1:51 pm(1:50 p.m.) Hillary Clinton’s campaign has taken a pledge.
The senator’s Iowa spokesman, Mark Daley, released a statement today saying it would sign any pledge affirming “our long-standing policy that any staffer or volunteer who has come to Iowa for the sole purpose of working on the campaign should not be allowed to caucus.”
Rival Chris Dodd’s campaign last week asked the other Democratic hopefuls to promise that no out-of-state staff or volunteers caucus or be counted as a caucus goer on Jan. 3.
Fears of corruption arose last cycle, too, but amounted to nothing. Still, Clinton’s campaign has come under fire for “planting” questions with a couple of Iowans, so promising early on to keep its non-Iowa staff from caucusing is probably wise.