The candidates may be getting a bit testy, but organizers for three Democratic presidential campaigns amiably share a farmhouse that reflects Iowa’s culture of grass-roots politics.
Caption: From left, Bryan McNamara, Jared Sherman
and Charles Uffelman prepared to turn out supporters
for three different Democratic presidential campaigns
in Riceville, Iowa, this month
Credit:.Jordan Gale for The New York Times
RICEVILLE, Iowa — Charles Uffelman, a bearded and burly Tennessean who is working in Iowa for Elizabeth Warren, stirred gravy on a stovetop while biscuits rose in the oven.
Jared Sherman, a Pete Buttigieg organizer in a checked lumberjack shirt, scrambled eggs.
Bryan McNamara, a staff member for Joseph R. Biden Jr. who is fond of a light leather jacket in the Midwest winter, poured strong coffee.
“I love these guys, I love organizing alongside them,” Mr. Uffelman said as he and the others prepared a country breakfast on a recent weekday morning.
The Democratic presidential candidates may have thrown some sharp elbows on a debate stage in Des Moines last week. But two and a half hours away, in a farmhouse beneath a wind turbine, with the odor of a hog farm wafting across a rural road, field organizers for three of the combatants have found a way to coexist in harmony as housemates [....]
