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Notes on the Iowa Caucuses

Lee Camp | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Lee Camp

Listen, when your only big-name supporter is a late-night Bowflex salesman, you're still a loser even when giving a victory speech.

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Read About The Next Battle For The White House On HuffPost's New Hampshire Page

Huffington Post | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Repackages Herself as a Black Man

Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

"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."

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Iowa: 15 Minutes Too Many of Fame

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Laura Vanderkam

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.

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The morning after: Democrats have a new favorite

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 01.04.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

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...

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Memo re Hillary Clinton #3: Hillary, Get Over It So You Can Get on With It

Gloria Feldt | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Gloria Feldt

Iowa caucus voters handed Barack Obama the blue ribbon and Hillary Clinton both a major challenge and an enormous opportunity.

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Clinton's Helen Reddy/Tammy Wynette Political Stategy Fails in Iowa

Byron Williams | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Byron Williams

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

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Hillary's 'Comeback Kid' Opportunity -- Already Squandered?

RJ Eskow | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

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.

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My Iowa Blues

Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Sherman Yellen

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.

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Iowa Results: Race Invisibility or Invisible Race?

Roberto Lovato | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Roberto Lovato

We are hardly entering the age of race invisibility in politics. Instead, Iowa points us towards the age of invisible race politics.

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An Obama Moment

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Geoffrey R. Stone

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."

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Obama and the Courage of our Convictions

Gary Hart | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Gary Hart

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.

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Clinton Aide Accuses Obama of Fathering Two Black Girls

Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Jerry and Joe Long

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.

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Iowa's Revolutionary Army

Craig Crawford | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Craig Crawford

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.

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In Iowa - A Return To Blessed Normalcy

Peter Smith | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Peter Smith

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.

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Hillary Campaign Retools Strategy, Predicts NH Win

Politico | Ben Smith and Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Is Obama's Victory the End of "You Go Girl" Politics?

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Morra Aarons-Mele

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.

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Why Obama's Win is Bigger Than You Think

Ari Melber | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

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.

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Biden Stripped of Caucus Delegates: What the Faucus?

Matthew Palevsky and Bess Kalb | Posted 01.04.2008 | Home

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Matthew Palevsky and Bess Kalb

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.

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How I Almost Committed Election Fraud

Christine Whelan | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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Christine Whelan

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?

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New Caucus Goers Fuel Obama Victory In Iowa

AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Iowa Primaries: Single, Female & Powerful

Kim Mance | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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Kim Mance

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).

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Iowa Caucuses Observations

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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Michael Fauntroy

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.

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Off to New Hampshire!

Andrei Cherny | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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Andrei Cherny

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.

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Mood Somber At Clinton Post-Caucus Party Site

Des Moines Register | Jennifer Jacobs | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home

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There was no music. About 200 diehard Hillary Clinton fans stared at big-screen televisions in the second-floor meeting rooms of the Hotel Fort Des M...

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