Daily Iowan

Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: Metro

"You've not been overly impressed with celebrity or wealth; you've gotten beyond that in the past," he said.

Dodd has been recently critical of Obama's campaign for encouraging out-of-state students to return to Iowa on Jan. 3 in order to caucus.

Comparing out-of-state students to his staff members, who have lived in Iowa for more than a year, he said the caucuses should be reserved for Iowans, which doesn't include students paying out-of-state tuition.

"If you're from Hartford, Conn., and you're going to school at the University of Iowa, and you're paying out-of-state tuition, you're [unfairly] casting yourself as an Iowan," he said.

With the caucuses less than a month away, Dodd emphasized that Iowans have the rare opportunity to meet the candidates in person. After the early states, he said, the campaigns become more about television ads.

"You get to become surrogates," he said. "You get to do what no one else, or very few, get to do."

E-mail DI reporter Dean Treftz at:

dean-treftz@uiowa.edu

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