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A Presidential Loss for Iowa Caucuses; Goodbye, David Yepsen

February 4, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Big news from Iowa: David Yepsen is leaving the Des Moines Register, after 20 years as its chief political reporter. He is a first class reporter and a very good and clear-sighted analyst—and also a very nice guy. If we have to start presidential campaigns in Iowa—and despite my failure to find in the Constitution the clause that says "Iowa and New Hampshire vote first," it appears we do—we could at least say that Yepsen was on the scene refereeing the contest. Now we'll have to do without him. Too bad.

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As close as we had to a reasonable political reporter.

Eric Ivers of CA 8:05PM February 04, 2009

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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