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MONTICELLO, Iowa Hillary Rodham Clinton returned Tuesday to ask for a second chance in Iowa, the state whose unique mix of national politics, local organization and high expectations dealt a devastating defeat to Clintons 2008 run for president.
I think we all know that American have come back from some pretty tough economic times," Clinton said as she sat down with a handful of community college students and others in rural Iowa.
"Our economy and our country are much better off because American families have basically done whatever it took to make it work," Clinton said, but "thedeck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
That populist economic manifesto is the first timber in the second-time presidential candidate's emerging platform. Clinton focused Tuesday on the cost of college, and the option of practical job preparation through community colleges and elsewhere.
"Theres something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the American worker," Clinton said. "Theres something wrong when students and their families have to go deeply into debt" to get an education.
Weve got to figure out in our country how to get back on the right track," Clinton said. "Americans and their families need a champion and I want to be that champion.
Theremote Kirkwood Community College campusoutside this small eastern town was as different a settingfromthe rally held a day earlier by Republican hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as Clintons advisers could manage.
Clinton met a handful of students and instructors inside a working auto repair shop that serves as a technical classroom. Ahead of Clintons arrival, a Ford sedan was parked on the floor, hood up.
One student, Bethany Moore, is a single mother of three children who enrolled at Kirkwood because she wanted to change careers, and the community college was the only affordable option. She told Clinton that one of her children will also enroll there next year.
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Hillary Clinton asks for a redo in Iowa