Notes on the Iowa Caucuses
Listen, when your only big-name supporter is a late-night Bowflex salesman, you're still a loser even when giving a victory speech.
Listen, when your only big-name supporter is a late-night Bowflex salesman, you're still a loser even when giving a victory speech.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
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Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
"This election is about whether or not America is ready to elect a black man President of the United States," she said. "I believe I am that black man."
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Normally, for six people in some small rural town to justify minutes of national airtime, they'd need to be in a bus crash. Last night, six Iowans garnered that kind of attention merely voting for Joe Biden.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 01.04.2008 | Home
Obama's victory was not a surprise. However much the press has been portraying this as a stunning upset, Obama's organization was long rumored to be m...
Gloria Feldt | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Iowa caucus voters handed Barack Obama the blue ribbon and Hillary Clinton both a major challenge and an enormous opportunity.
Byron Williams | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
She portrays herself as the independent woman, with 35-years of experience, involved in all the triumphs of the Clinton administration, and takes little responsibility for its failures
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
The electorate is unimpressed by her campaign strategy, and her response seems to be to tear down the other guy so that voters will accept her because they have no other choice.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
I was reluctant to view the caucuses as American democracy at its best. I thought it was a trumped up festival for cable news, exaggerated and unrepresentative, a political Tupperware party.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
We are hardly entering the age of race invisibility in politics. Instead, Iowa points us towards the age of invisible race politics.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
As I observed Obama at a fundraiser I co-hosted in 2003, I thought to myself, "What a waste. This is demeaning. Barack should forget politics and become a full-time law professor."
Gary Hart | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
As one who has struggled throughout a lifetime for restoration of idealism to American politics, I can only smile, and perhaps shed a tear of happiness, that our time may have come.
Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Mark Penn, senior political strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign, today urged Barack Obama to "come clean" and admit that he has fathered two African American girls.
Craig Crawford | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Even within their own party, the president and vice president seem to have provoked such yearning for change that Republican insurgent Mike Huckabee has stormed the gates and now has party elders in a panic.
Peter Smith | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
For the better part of a year there, Iowa was stuck -- and, (being Iowa), the whole state was too polite to tell the politicians and their entourages where to get off.
Politico | Ben Smith and Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to target what her campaign calls Barack Obama's inexperience over the next five days in New Hampshire and deliver much s...
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Clinton's "You go girl" message was just not enough to get a majority of women to vote for her in Iowa, even though traditionally the messaging of political women's groups convinces us that women will vote for women.
Ari Melber | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Last night, Iowans did not simply accept Obama's masterful ability to clear those hurdles, they rushed to support him in an unprecedented coalition within record-breaking turnout.
Matthew Palevsky and Bess Kalb | Posted 01.04.2008 | Home
The Precinct Secretary counted Biden's corner as 69 strong--one person short. A woman in a red coat had wandered into a crowd of Edwards supporters and now headed back to the Biden circle. "Times up!" yelled the Secretary.
Christine Whelan | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Caucusing can be confusing. But I was giddy all day about this opportunity to make a difference and shape national politics. I mean, how complicated can caucusing really be?
AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
An influx of new caucus-goers boosted Barack Obama to victory in the Iowa caucuses in a race that centered on which candidate would best be able to ch...
Kim Mance | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Women have realized their power and will decide this election (look out middle-aged, white men -- it ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun).
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
While Huckabee was able to pull off Iowa with little money, it's doubtful that Edwards can do the same in New Hampshire given the strength of his competition.
Andrei Cherny | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
For all intents and purposes, the Democratic nomination battle is now down to Obama and Clinton -- and the fight in New Hampshire could well be decisive.
Des Moines Register | Jennifer Jacobs | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
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Lee Camp | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics