US Republican White House possibilities can strech millions of voters on Facebook and Twitter, though even in a Internet age there is no surrogate for bakeries, coffee shops, or private homes.
Ahead of Iowa's Jan 3 first-in-the-nation presidential nominating vote, a swarming margin of would-be challengers to Democratic President Barack Obama has criss-crossed this heartland state courtship electorate roughly one by one.
Republican Representative Michele Bachmann, who trails a frontrunners, stopped during an rural machine store in this community of fewer than 3,000 people on Thursday on a bus-borne lurch by all of Iowa's 99 counties.
"We've been in 8 bakeries, we've been in dual bowling alleys, we've been in over a dozen Pizza Ranches," she told reporters here. "What we've been doing is listening to Iowans any step of a way."
That's no politician's idle boast: Bachmann shook hands and chatted with any of a roughly 3 dozen people packaged into aisles of chainsaws, trimmers, automatic lubricants, nuts and bolts during a Southard Implement Company.
By a time she boarded her specifically versed train -- that bears her name, her central website address, and blares Christmas song -- and waved good-bye a domestic value of such sell politics were obvious.
"I do like her," pronounced Sandy Johannsen, a 65-year-old rancher who grows corn and beans. "I wish a intelligent one, we wish one that's going to assistance people, and a economy. And we wish one who will win, kick Obama."
Johannsen pronounced she prefers saying possibilities for herself to conference their write or Internet pitches since "I can tell a lot by saying a chairman and listening to them in person, like either they are revelation a truth."
Iowans are underneath relentless election-season attack on a airwaves -- any other ad seems to be singing one politician's praises, or perplexing to rip another down -- a write rings fives times a day with debate calls while volunteers hit on doors, and yard signs dot a landscape.
But for maestro debate hands there's no surrogate for an in-person appeal, forward of a Nov 2012 elections.
"The strongest publicity a claimant can accept is from a voter's neighbor," explained Terry Holt, inhabitant orator for George W. Bush's successful 2004 reelection campaign.
And "candidates wish to be seen in a context of people's lives, uncover that they're able of doing what normal people do -- interlude in for coffee, carrying a review about a weather," Holt told AFP by telephone.
Holt remarkable that Facebook and Twitter won't strech as many comparison voters, who are "the many arguable electorate in any election" since their audience is generally aloft than a average.
"You need to have a multi-tiered approach," he said. "But there is a generational order between a newer strategy and a some-more normal tactics. You competence not strech a lot of electorate over 45 with a Twitter account."
Carol Williams, who gives her age as "over 65," came with her father Claude, "I'm also 'over 65,'" to see Bachmann pronounce during a Hamburg Inn #2 in Iowa City -- though they like former senator Rick Santorum after assembly him late Wednesday.
"It was a Christmas party" not even one mile from their home, and Santorum "spoke, and he answered questions, and we were impressed," she told AFP in a swarming diner, adding that her number-one idea is "beating Obama."
Santorum was "talking to us really most like a neighbor, he sounded really authentic," pronounced Claude Williams.
"He didn't sound like a politician, he sounded like one of us."
The Hamburg Inn #2 has turn a tack stop forward of a Iowa caucus, braggadocio visits from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton and even appearing on a caucus-themed part of a radio uncover The West Wing."
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