article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Hillary Clinton.
article_snippet.sent: The three got the lion's share of Hillary Clinton's time and participated in what breathless news reports described as a 'roundtable'– the first of many in Hillary Clinton brief Iowa campaign swing.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton sat to talk with three young Iowans at a coffee shop on Tuesday – all of whom were driven to the event by Hillary Clinton Iowa campaign's political director .
article_snippet.sent: and we went up to the coffee house, and we sat at a table and then Hillary just came up and talked with we.'
article_snippet.sent: It's unclear how many Iowans featured in photographs with Hillary Clinton that rocketed around the country on Tuesday were planted. '
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton's nascent campaign has carefully coordinated Hillary Clinton image as a spontaneous, handshaking populist in Hillary Clinton first days as a candidate, posing with Pennsylvanians at a gas station and venturing into an Ohio Chipotle restaurant for lunch.
article_snippet.sent: – Clinton's nascent campaign leaked information to The New York Times so The New York Times reporters could get security-camera footage to prove the former first lady – had tried to mingle with voters.
article_snippet.sent: Scripting supposedly off-the-cuff appearances is common in presidential politics but could hurt Hillary Clinton especially hard since Hillary Clinton gonzo road-trip journey to America's broad midwest is designed to counter Hillary Clinton image as cold, calculating and politically venomous.
article_snippet.sent: And planting party insiders in place of typical Iowans won't go over well in the Hawkeye State, where pressing the flesh and collecting caucus votes is a quadrennial full-contact sport.
article_snippet.sent: Setting up faux events for news cameras is nothing new in politics, but Iowans take presidential contests seriously and could punish Hillary Clinton for the deception .
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton's campaign has already taken heat for depicting at least three people in Hillary Clinton campaign launch video as 'everyday' Americans who were actually partisans with political connections.
highlights_snippet.sent: a 'student' and Hillary Clinton campaign called it an unscripted event .
  