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Visiting the Iowa State Fair

By Jaime Mulligan - Aug 14th, 2007 at 12:56 pm EDT

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Yesterday, a bunch of Obama volunteers, interns, and staffers headed over to the Iowa State Fair. Some were looking for deep fried candy bars, some wanted to see the world's largest swine, some were on a mission to see the butter cow. Here we are, right after arriving at the fairgrounds:

No surprise, but it was pretty hot out, so there was a lot of lemonade and water purchased to go along with our sampling of fried pickles, fried Oreos, fried cheese curds, pork chops on a stick, and corndogs. I personally made a beeline for the chocolate-covered cheesecake on a stick.

Of course, we went by and casted our kernels for Barack in the corn straw poll:

And we made it to the butter cow:

The butter cow is made out of over 500 pounds of butter. And yes, the cow is wearing glasses, perhaps in homage to its next door neighbor, the butter Harry Potter.

Barack is heading to the Fair with his family later this week. Have recommendations for what they shouldn’t miss? Leave ideas in the comments!

For more pictures of the fair, including the butter Harry Potter, check out the slideshow:

(Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR).

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