Washington Post: Campaign Will Get More Intense, Clinton Says

OSKALOOSA, Iowa -- In her first swing through Iowa since coming under the sharpest attacks of the campaign from her Democratic rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was "thrilled" to hear some cheers.

Her campaign had mentioned the strong support she is getting from young people in a memo to reporters this past week, but it was not referring to the ones here. Even before the Democrat from New York entered a farming museum in this town, fifth- and sixth-grade girls, seated behind where Clinton would speak, were shouting, "We want Hillary for president."

"I'm . . . thrilled to have my very own cheerleaders," Clinton joked after arriving. Later, as they chanted her name again, she turned and proclaimed: "This is better than a poll. I'm going to take these young women with me everywhere I go."

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