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When Hillary Rodham Clinton finished third in Iowa during the 2008 presidential race, voters' post-game analysis couldnt have been clearer. She didnt spend enough time in the Hawkeye State. She didnt bond with Iowans. She was the imperial candidate.

Returning to Iowa for the first time Sunday after that excruciating loss, Clinton seemed to have taken those lessons to heart.

After her speech at retiring Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry, Clinton patiently worked the rope line for more than half an hour warmly shaking hands, signing copies of her book and chatting with voters about her soon-to-arrive grandchild.

God bless you, she said repeatedly as voters strained to shake her hand.

She was as circumspect as always about her 2016 plans, but gamely fielded pleas to run.

Youre going to be a great grandma and great president, one fan told her.

Were so ready, a young woman told her moments later.

Thank you very much! Clinton replied brightly, as her interactions with voters were captured by a CSPAN boom microphone towering over the crowd.

Surrounded by Secret Service agents and aides, Clinton worked the rope line Sunday side by side with husband Bill Clinton, who wore a red-and-white gingham shirt that she gave him. Not surprisingly, the former first lady moved more briskly down the line than her garrulous husband, who at one point engaged in a lengthy discussion with a voter about his efforts to foster peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

The former secretary of State greeted old friends and volunteers from her husbands campaigns and her own.

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Presumably hungry for firmer footing this go around, Hillary Clinton on Sunday returns to Iowa for her first public appearance since the Hawkeye State dished out what she's described as an "excruciating" third-place finish in the first-in-the-nation presidential voting state's 2008 caucuses.

The former secretary of state will headline the 37th and last-ever Harkin Steak Fry, a longtime draw for the top names in politics and a bastion for any Democrat eyeing a White House run. Hosted every year by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the event has seen heavyweights from John Kerry to Al Gore, and is credited largely with boosting the celebrity of then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2006.

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With more than 5,000 people expected to attend, Harkin's final hurrah will mark the largest turnout since Clinton's only other visit to the steak fry in 2007. Former President Bill Clinton, who will accompany her to rural Indianola and is also slated to make remarks, has notched three prior steak fry appearances.

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When former Iowa Attorney General Bonnie Campbell's husband died in 2010, the first condolence phone call she received was from Bill Clinton. The second came from Hillary Clinton.

The Clintons checked in on Ed Campbell every few weeks as he battled a long illness, Bonnie Campbell recalled in an interview last week, serving if only over the phone as a shoulder to lean on.

"They have many more friends than just me, and closer friends," Campbell said of the former president and perhaps future president. "But when I hear people say Hillary seems cool and distant that's just not right. She's one of the warmest, most genuine people I know."

When Hillary and Bill Clinton arrive in Indianola this afternoon for the 37th Harkin Steak Fry, they'll rekindle relationships in the nation's leadoff presidential voting state that go back three decades and perhaps begin forming new ones as she deliberates another run at the presidency.

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Campbell, a veteran of Bill Clinton's Department of Justice whom he later nominated (unsuccessfully) for a federal judgeship, is just one of many Iowans sharing a long history with the powerful couple.

A 2016 campaign in Iowa would almost certainly combine members of that trusted network with a new generation of campaign talent, many of whom came up over the past seven years in the Obama campaign machine, Iowa politicos said last week.

Beyond Campbell, the loyalists include Jerry Crawford, an Iowa fixer dating to Bill Clinton's presidency, and former Gov. Tom Vilsack and his wife, Christie. The new crew will skew younger, and comes with resumes mentioning President Barack Obama's victorious Iowa campaigns and Ready for Hillary, the independent pro-Clinton group active in the state.

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