Jason Noble, Des Moines Register
Presidential candidates hitting the road to meet voters and win votes is certainly nothing new in the history of American politics.Harry Truman rode 30,000 miles on a whistle-stop tour in 1948. George W. Bush covered six states in 19 hours on the eve of Election Day 2004.But Barack Obama’s three-day, river-to-river tour of Iowa that begins today doesn’t appear to have many precedents, observers and historians said last week.
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