Caucuses

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

Maegan Carberry | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics


Maegan Carberry

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.

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

Will Bower | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics


Will Bower

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

Proposal For 2012 Primaries

Will Bower | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Will Bower

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.

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

Will Bower | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home


Will Bower

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.

Reforming the Nominating System: Maybe There is No Better Way

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

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.

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

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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.

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Barack Bets On Record Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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

Marc Cooper

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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...

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Full Scale Union Ground War

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Boys Behaving Badly: Romney & Huckabee's Final Bout

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

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

Biden's Bedbug Problem

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

"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.

The Tao Of Iowa Caucus Voters

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

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

Marc Cooper: Live Iowa Campaign Journal

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

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.