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While history provides useful keys to the present, this year's presidential campaign offers much that is new. In contrast to the recent past, the January primaries brought huge crowds into the political arena. A large proportion of those crowds, especially in Iowa, were young people, attracted by the promise and hope of a fresh start in politics, which several of the candidates claim to offer. Change became the rallying cry of leaders in the early primaries, both in Iowa and New Hampshire, change and a new beginning, rather than experience and connections to the past. The political institutions and organizations that had previously worked so well appeared anachronistic and out …