Avoid corn dogs, visit the butter cow and other advice to presidential candidates visiting the Iowa State Fair
For most visitors, the Iowa State Fair is a bucolic stroll through Middle America, packed with fried food, fairground rides and agricultural feats. For presidential candidates, the 400-plus acre fairground can be more treacherous, as the 2020 Democratic hopefuls heading there in the coming days may discover.
At the 2011 fair, Republican Mitt Romney, now a Utah senator, argued with a heckler over social-security taxes, blurting out “corporations are people.” Democrats used the phrase to paint him as an elite businessman out...
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