Biden visit excites some Iowa Dems

“I don’t think it is a coincidence that he is coming to Iowa as opposed to, say, Arizona, where I assume they also have community colleges,” said Sara Riley, a lawyer from Cedar Rapids who worked on Biden’s 2008 campaign and remains loyal to him today.

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Polls show Clinton as the local favorite. Some even have her up as many as 56 percentage points, with Biden in the low double-digits.

But Biden’s Iowa diehards dismiss most polling numbers as nothing more than name recognition and still give the vice president as strong change if he gets in.

CNN