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Can Amy Klobuchar pull off a surprise in Iowa's presidential caucuses?

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Amy Klobuchar, campaigning across Iowa in the first days of the new year, told voters about a text a friend sent her after a surge in polls and fundraising.

"It had autocorrected by mistake, it said congratulations on your insurgency," she said to laughs from a few hundred people gathered at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids. "I'm happy to take those words! That's fine by me, and I think that's what you're seeing all over this state and all over this country!"

Klobuchar's optimism may be overstated - the Minnesota senator is in single digits in nearly every state and national poll, including an Iowa survey released Friday by the Des Moines Register and CNN, and she trailed her main rivals for the Democratic nomination by more than $10 million in the fundraising quarter that closed Dec. 31.

But Iowa

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