Campaign In 100 Seconds: Iowa, Iowa, Iowa

Sept. 30, 2011 - Climbing Hill, IOWA, US - A farmer combines his soybeans south of near Climbing Hill, Iowa, Friday, Sept. 30 2011 (Newscom TagID: zumawireworldphotosfour998982) [Photo via Newscom]
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With only six days to go until the Iowa caucuses, the rhetoric has been ramped up as though the contest were make or break.

TPM’s Thomas Lane looks back on the history of the first-in-the-nation contest to see the impact it has had on previous winners:

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