January 02, 2008
In Iowa, Some Are Fickle Friends
MOUNT PLEASANT – A woman who famously switched from volunteering for Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama has changed her mind again.
Susan Klopfer was volunteering for Clinton until, she estimates, November. She worked hard as a volunteer but resented the advance staff that was brought in to take charge of the events. As the next-door neighbor of Clinton backer and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (a recent transplant from Nevada, and therefore, a first-time caucus-goer), Klopfer had a bit higher profile than most Iowans. When she switched, the Obama campaign made a video that got lots of play, not only on YouTube, but also on cable news programs.
"It got more hits than Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. It got the all-time highest over that weekend," Klopfer said of the video's YouTube hits. The video was so potent that the Clinton campaign made an answering video with its own former Obama supporters.
But when Klopfer showed up at a John Edwards house party this morning, it was because she was on the verge of switching again.
"In both of those people I didn't see the experience that I'd like to see and kind of the groundedness that I'd like to see," she said of Obama and Clinton, "so I'm really looking at Edwards, and I'm still really looking at (Bill) Richardson."
Klopfer said she went to see Richardson last night in Mount Pleasant last night and was impressed by him.
"Probably I'll caucus for Richardson," she said after Edwards spoke. "My guess is he won't be viable, and then I'll probably scoot right over to Edwards."
(NBC/NJ's TRICIA MILLER)
Posted at 01:22 PM
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So let me get this straight...experience is a factor to this woman and she wants to go to the man who has the least amount of elected legislative experience of ALL the Democratic candidates? Sound to me like she became fond of the attention as is looking to switch again for that jolt of adrenaline.
Mark Billingsley | 01.02.08 04:25 PM
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