From "Obama Takes Sharper Tone to the Trail"
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: August 17, 2007
In a question-and-answer session here, a woman rose from her seat and declared, “You excite the hell out of me, and I haven’t been hopeful for a long time!”
As presidential hopefuls in both parties descended upon Iowa this week, several voters said they attended multiple campaign events to size up the contenders. While many Iowans say they will wait until the final weeks to select a candidate, local officials and party activists are being vigorously wooed to be onboard shortly after Labor Day.
Patrice Watson, a 55-year-old medical researcher from Council Bluffs, said she saw Mrs. Clinton on Tuesday and Mr. Obama on Thursday. She had yet to make up her mind, Ms. Watson said, but was eager to hear the distinctions.
“She’s a very good speaker,” Ms. Watson said of Mrs. Clinton in an interview. “She seems very knowledgeable. She really knows how things work, and she’s very smart and experienced.”
She added: “But I’m not sure that she’s really committed to the sort of radical change that I think we need. We need things to really change — the way Washington works, the way decisions are made in this country.”
As she walked away, Ms. Watson turned back and said, “Right now, I’m likely to be hanging an Obama sign in the window, but I always sleep on things before I decide for sure.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/politics/17obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin