Des Moines Inner City Voters: “Candidates Don’t Come Into The Hood”

Amanda Michel, Huffington Post

It seems rare to find a group of nine people anywhere in Iowa a week before the caucuses who hasn’t seen any presidential candidates at all, even in passing, even by accident as they gladhand through a Starbucks or a Hy-Vee supermarket.

But all nine young people settled around a table munching pizza and talking politics at Urban Dreams, a social service organization serving Des Moines’ inner city, don’t care that they missed out on photo ops. The gathered group makes the point as Ryan Ford, executive editor of The Source and son of Urban Dreams’ founder puts it, “Iowa isn’t all white people.” Too many politicians he notes, “breeze through town, shake hands and then they leave this community with the same problems.”

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