Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- If Hillary Clinton decides not to run for president -- and yes, that is still possible -- her return to the media lion's den might be a factor in her thinking. She's done a national book tour and the paid lecture circuit, but Clinton got an up-close look at today's frenzied political news environment last weekend when she visited Iowa for the first time in seven years, a spectacle primed for an avalanche of media coverage given her expected campaign and her tortured history with the Hawkeye State. I joined more than 200 other reporters who swarmed the scene and tweeted away, even though most Americans on social media that day probably cared more about Robert Griffin's ankle.
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Hillary Clinton made her first trip to Iowa since losing to Barack Obama and John Edwards in 2008
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Hillary Clinton gets a hard look at what's ahead and what's changed if she decides to run
Barack Obama
It was useful for me to see whether her political skills and her willingness to play the Iowa game had shifted since she lost the nomination fight to @placeholder.