Mood on Main Street - Newton, Iowa
An occasional series about politics in the Obama era, looking at Newton, Iowa, a town in the center of the state that launched the president to the White House. Newton was Maytag's company town for years, but globalization killed washing-machine manufacturing there in 2007. Since then, the town has been struggling to remake itself as a center of the fledgling alternative-energy industry.

Michael E. Ruane and Al Drago, Washington Post
Steven Yoder, Hechinger Report
Nancy Cook, Washington Post
Robert D. McFadden, New York Times
Leah Willingham, Associated Press
Will Weissert, Gary Fields, and Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
Sophie Austin, Jaimie Ding, and Christopher Weber, Associated Press
Ben Conarck, Washington Post
Dear Abby, Inquirer wire services
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