If you’re a 2008er candidate or campaign staff and looking to do something uniquely Iowan on your stops to the state (particularly if you’ve got limited Iowa experience), then one resource you should really look into is Essential Iowa. Run by Jay Wagner, I’m consistently impressed with the features he offers on Iowa’s history and traditions, like Maid-Rite burgers (which were featured at the Taste of Iowa event for the Culver Inauguration). The site is definitely worth a stop.
In the first line, they call him “Obama Barack.” Whoops…