Seth Moulton’s Struggling Presidential Campaign Caps Iowa State Fair Candidate Appearances

By Erin Murphy, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES — The crowd was not nearly as big as what other candidates drew.The news conference was far more sparsely attended.The stroll through the masses was mostly unencumbered.Such was the Iowa State Fair experience for Seth Moulton, the final Democratic presidential candidate to make his way to through the fairgrounds, and the only one to appear Saturday.Moulton, 40, a congressman from Massachusetts, is polling at literally zero, according to Morning Consult’s latest data on the Democratic primary.While a few dozen people came to hear Moulton speak at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox on Saturday, one of the fair’s busiest days, that crowd was far smaller than what other candidates drew the previous weekend.Only a handful of reporters participated in Moulton’s post-Soapbox news conference.And as he made his way through the fairgrounds, he was rarely stopped.Moulton introduced himself to the couple standing in line with him at WHO-TV’s “Cast Your Kernel” booth, where fairgoers drop a corn kernel in the jar of the candidate they plan to support.Moulton, like other candidates, took a turn and dropped a kernel in his jar, which had barely enough to cover the base.