Caucuses

Calling for a Denver Art Caucus

Robert Schwab | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Art, Colorado, Manifesto, Denver, Caucuses, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Arts, Artists, Denver Artists, Denver News

I issue my call to all Colorado artists. It is a utopian invitation built around a new model for conducting the business of art: production of high quality work in an age when money rules the barriers of entry.

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Everyone Hates The Caucuses Now, Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Maine Caucus, 2012 Speculatron, Nevada Caucus, Iowa Caucus Process, Election Reform, Video, 2012 Election, Iowa Caucuses, Elections 2012, Caucus-Process, Caucuses, 2012, Politics News

Ahh, caucuses. As John Avlon notes, there is no better expression of the "romantic notions" of street-level politics than the sight of friends and nei...

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Mitt Romney's Anti-Social Stance on Social Security

Cliff Schecter | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Social Security, George W. Bush, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Older White Voters, Ann Richards, Social Security Works, Caucuses, Social Security Trust Fund, Primaries, Mike Huckabee, Conservative Political Action Conference, Latino Voters, Privatization, Cpac, Paul Krugman, Bain, Video, Politics News

Mitt Romney, tribune of the people, still doesn't seem to get a simple concept: Social Security is popular. With everybody. And particularly with olde...

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Romney, Paul Leave Rivals To Battle In Iowa

AP | THOMAS BEAUMONT | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Iowa Caucus, Caucus, Iowa, 2012 Iowa Caucuses, 2012 Elections, New Hampshire Primary 2012, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Caucuses, Iowa Caucuses 2012, Video, New Hampshire Primary, Mitt Romney 2012, New Hampshire, Iowa Caucuses, Ron Paul 2012, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News

LE MARS, Iowa — Mitt Romney is the clear Republican front-runner in Iowa in the final days before the first voting in the 2012 presidential elec...

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Attacks Turn Nasty In Iowa

AP | By PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Caucus, Iowa Caucuses 2012, Iowa Caucus, Iowa, Video, New Hampshire Primary, New Hampshire Primary 2012, 2012 Election, Super PACs, New Hampshire, Elections 2012, Iowa Caucuses, Citizens United, Iowa Caucus 2012, Caucuses, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, ASSOCIATED PRESS CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- So much for Iowa Nice. It's more like Iowa Nasty. In a state whose Midwestern civility...

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Senior Advisor Blasts Perry's 'Ineptly Orchestrated, Just Unbelievably Subpar Campaign'

Politico | By JONATHAN MARTIN and MAGGIE HABERMAN | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Iowa Caucuses 2012, Caucus, Video, 2012 Election, Rick Perry 2012, Iowa Caucuses, Elections 2012, Caucuses, Iowa Caucus 2012, Rick Perry, Politics News

With a revamped message and a significant TV presence here, Rick Perry is hoping to revive his disappointing presidential campaign with a surprise fin...

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'We Just Have To Get Over The Hurdle Of Convincing People We Can Win'

AP | By ANDREW MIGA | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Iowa Caucuses 2012, Caucus, Video, Conservatives, 2012 Election, Iowa Caucuses, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum 2012, Caucuses, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rick Santorum has never been shy about picking fights, even with fellow Republicans. Just two months after arriving in the Senate in 19...

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Bachmann Vows To Stay In Race Amid Controversy

AP | By BRIAN BAKST | Posted 12.29.2011

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Vowing to press ahead through the Iowa caucuses, Republican Michele Bachmann dismissed the notion Thursday that her presidential c...

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Last Lap Around Iowa

James Moore | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Gop, Rick Perry, Caucuses, Lobbyists, Hypocrite, 2012, Iowa, Politics News

Nobody laughs when Perry says he'll control spending when he gets to Washington. Maybe because it's not funny. It's a bit frightening that he is pulling close to ten percent in recent Iowa polls. In the last budget Perry passed before he went north of the Red River to chase his fantasy, he cut the heart out of virtually every government program. He talks about budget management and fiscal austerity and then puts the state in a position of spending like a fool on his own security. The fact that this candidate is given any type of consideration by Republican voters is a condemnation of their party and the American electoral process.

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Which States Should Go First in 2016?

Will Bower | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: 2016, Primaries, Florida, Ron Paul, New Hampshire, Iowa, Caucuses, Missouri, 2012 Election, North Carolina, Indiana, Politics News

Perhaps we should all ask ourselves which heavenly deity ordained that "Iowa Shalt Forever and Always be First Amongst the People."

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Iowa Governor Taking Occupy The Caucuses Shutdown Threat Seriously

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Occupy Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Video, 2012 Elections, Anonymous, Republican Presidential Candidates, Terry Branstad, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Des Moines, Occupy the Caucus, Caucuses, Occupy Movement, Iowa Governor, Protesters, Presidential Primary, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) told reporters at his weekly press conference Monday morning that he is taking a threat by the group Anonym...

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From Iowa to Inauguration: A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

Maegan Carberry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election Results, Iowa Caucuses, Caucuses, Democratic Primaries, Politics News

To remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on earth, this week I am publishing my emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a video about the caucus process.

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Please, Bobby! End the Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis!

Will Bower | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caucus, Primaries, Primary, Bobby Jindal, New Hampshire, Iowa, Democratic, Jindal, Missouri, Caucuses, Voting, 2012, Republican, North Carolina, Politics News

Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."

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Proposal For 2012 Primaries

Will Bower | Posted 05.25.2011

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The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.

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My History Of P.U.M.A.: From Iowa To Denver and Beyond

Will Bower | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Facebook, Delegates, Mccain, Democratic, Obama, Caucuses, Puma, Donna Brazile, Primaries, Howard Dean, Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Rendell, Harriet Christian, Dnc, Party Unity My Ass, David Letterman, Home News

What now? Our primary goal is to unite the millions of disaffected Democrats and to hold the DNC and its leadership accountable this November and beyond, working to defeat key players and create fairer elections.

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Reforming the Nominating System: Maybe There is No Better Way

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Reform, Primaries, Hillary Clinton, Caucuses, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Democratic Nominating Process, Politics News

While the nominating system probably should be reformed, doing that will not be simple. Most of the easy solutions to fixing the nominating system are neither easy nor solutions.

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Clinton Claiming Widespread Fraud By Obama, Ramping Up Legal War To String Out Primary

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Offthebus, Lawyers, Florida, Democratic National Convention, Michigan, Superdelegates, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Texas, Caucuses, Barack Obama, Home News

The Clinton camp called a press conference tonight, which I attended telephonically, to accuse the Obama Texas campaign of "statewide systemic" abuses of the caucus process.

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The Tao Of Iowa Caucus Voters

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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DES MOINES -- Lynn Sweet, the big dog political columnist for the Chicago Sun Times - fond of wearing clogs on the campaign trial, snapping photograph...

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Boys Behaving Badly: Romney & Huckabee's Final Bout

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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DES MOINES -- In the final hours before the Iowa caucuses, the top two Republican candidates continued their verbal slugfest by trading accusations o...

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Biden's Bedbug Problem

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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"So what do bedbug bites look like?" OffTheBus asked Joe Biden's Iowa political director, Danny O'Brien. "They're really big and round and itch like crazy," said O'Brien.

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Marc Cooper: Live Iowa Campaign Journal

Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Presidential Candidate, Iowa, Biden, Marc Cooper, Caucuses, Clinton, John Edwards, Obama, Home News

Retail campaigns like those run in Iowa are not just bubbles, but veritable self-contained ecospheres. Candidate events are packed with self-selecting audiences and trying to venture a guess as to who's ahead and who's not, who's got the Big Mo or the Big Slow, simply by sizing up campaign rallies is a fool's errand.

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Nevada: Barack Bets On Record Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Las Vegas, Nevada - Predicting a "record turn-out" for Saturday's presidential caucuses, Barack Obama closed out his Silver State campaign last night ...

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Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...

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Nevada: Full Scale Union Ground War

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Culinary, Edwards, Labor, Oranizers, Clinton, Seiu, Caucusing, Get Out the Vote, Obama, Nevada, Marc Cooper, Caucuses, Unions, Local 226, Las Vegas, Ground War, Politics News

Las Vegas, NV -- Forty-eight hours to go before Saturday's Democratic caucuses and it's strictly battle-station mode at the headquarters of the 60,000...

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