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In 2004, after Senator John Edwards was already surging forward, the Des Moines Register endorsement put even more wind in his sails. He finished a surprising second.
Four years earlier, the Register endorsed Senator Bill Bradley. Did this coveted endorsement translate into votes? You decide: Al Gore won 64 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses in 2000, compared with Bradley's 35 percent.
Here's a small nit to pick: Operation Rescue was founded in 1986.
So Kissling errs in paragraph 2 when she writes: The Operation Rescue zealot turned off a lot of working-class people who were nervous about whether abortion might have become "too easy" years back, by unleashing a few thousand die-hards who began chaining themselves to clinic doors and barging into operating rooms in the '70s to "save the babies."
Change that from '70s to mid-80s and you've got it right.
