"It's been seven years, and a lot has changed," Hillary Clinton said Sunday in her first visit to Iowa since the state dealt her presidential campaign a devastating body blow. But there was a moment in the afternoon when it seemed like not much had. Roughly 200 credentialed media were gathered in a far corner of the Indianola Balloon Field, the grassy expanse where Sen. Tom Harkin was convening his 37th and final Steak Fry, an annual fundraiser that doubles as a point of entry for ambitious Democrats curious about the Iowa caucuses. After a 90-minute wait, the press scrum -- scribblers and photographers alike -- were herded like cattle through a series of gates and escorted up to a hot smoking grill, waiting to capture the same image: a staged shot of Bill and Hillary Clinton, fresh out of their motorcade, ritualistically flipping steaks with Harkin.
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With Bill at her side, Hillary Clinton attends the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry
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The questions on everyone's mind: Will she run, and what did she learn from 2008?
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Hillary Clinton is reluctant to chat it up with reporters, but she gave it a go Sunday
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While she leads in the polls, other names come up: Biden, Warren, O'Malley
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Hillary Clinton's speech to the sun-drenched crowd, more workmanlike than impassioned, was littered with @placeholder pleasantries and nods to the last campaign, including her opening line: "Hello Iowa!
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She lavished praise on Harkin and, after a warm-up that included nods to her time as Secretary of State and her "constant grandchild watch," urged the audience to get behind @placeholder's slate of Democratic candidates.