Iowans gather around on blankets and lawn chairs, surrounding a stage smothered with all the red, white and blue you would expect on election night or Fourth of July.
#Tom and jerry steak movie
The backdrop of Steak Fry Sunday is like a movie scene from political days gone by. If you want to go backward, you put it in ‘R.’ But if you want to go forward, you put it in ‘D.’” Then, the senator does his part to raise the crowd into a frenzy with funny anecdotes of his political experiences and his famous, razor-sharp criticism of Republicans-like this line he loves to use: “All you ever need to know about this election, you already learned from driving. It’s her time to poke a little fun at her husband, but also to share the intimate, personal stories of a couple connected by campaigns for more than 40 years. Statewide candidates get their turn on stage too, as does Ruth Harkin, the senator’s wife. It is their chance to strut their stuff in front of the most diehard of diehard political activists, the ones who get excited about meeting a politician when few others in the country even know who that person is.They shake hands, talk one-on-one and pose for pictures-selfies, these days-to form what they hope will become a connection that lasts until the all-important night of the Iowa caucuses, when hard work in the state can transform an unknown politician into a caucus night winner and eventually the next president of the United States. But the Steak Fry is so much more than that: Serious Democratic presidential candidates, or at least those dreaming of becoming serious candidates, can springboard into the Iowa conversation by speaking on the Steak Fry stage (only after getting a personal invitation from Harkin, of course). Sure, it’s a campaign fundraiser for Harkin and the Iowa Democratic Party. And there may never be anything like it again. There is nothing in American politics quite like the Harkin Steak Fry. senator, will host his 37th, and final, Harkin Steak Fry. It’s here that Tom Harkin, Iowa’s longest-serving Democratic U.S. Iowans are once again about to hear the sizzle-but for the last time-as thousands of them gather this Sunday to watch history along the rolling hills here in the rural Indianola countryside, some 20 miles south of Des Moines. Dave Price is political director and weekend anchor for WHO-TV and author of Caucus Chaos, about the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.
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