How Bloomingdale's turned into GUM

5 February 2008 By Martin Hutchinson

For Iowans, the Presidential choice was like shopping at Bloomingdale’s eight Republican candidates and eight Democrats. Now most have dropped out. The 90% of voters still to participate, mostly in today s primaries, face the Soviet GUM of limited choice.

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