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...
Washington Post's The Trail | Shailagh Murray | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod said the most surprising thing [about tonight] was the turnout. "These were numbers you'd expect almost in a primar...
Washington Post's The Trail | Shailagh Murray | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod said the most surprising thing [about the caucus] was the turnout. "These were numbers you'd expect almost in a pri...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
The campaigns must be tech-savvy, youth-friendly, and otherwise inclusive of this new generation of voters. Rock on, young voters -- tonight is your victory.
AP | Amy Lorentzen | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
DES MOINES, Iowa -- An influx of new caucus-goers boosted Barack Obama to victory in the Iowa caucuses in a race that centered on which candidate woul...
AP | Nedra Pickler | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON -- Democrat John Edwards told The Associated Press that the Iowa caucus showed that voters are choosing change over the status quo, and he ...
David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
That Edwards was even close in this race at all, and that Huckabee won outright is a success for both candidates considering they were grossly outspent by candidates being funded by huge corporate interests.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Even if your candidate didn't win on Thursday, you have reason to celebrate. We all do. Barack Obama's stirring victory in Iowa -- down home, folksy, 92 percent white Iowa -- says a lot about America.
David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
The media's desperation to create storylines has the very real possibility of creating self-fulfilling predictions.
Paul Szep | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
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Starting at 9pm (EST), click here to watch real-time Iowa caucus results by county, courtesy of Google Maps. ...
236.com | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
In a new campaign ad, the 60-year-old Hillary Clinton manages to lament the last seven years of the Bush Administration without looking as if she's li...
Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
With the Iowa Caucus less than hours away, there are a multitude of polls being released - none of which support the other. Being in Iowa does not help to make the races seem any clearer.
236.com | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
It's showtime in Iowa, with the caucus voting set to begin in mere hours. The presidential candidates are making their last ditch appeals to John Q. I...
John Zogby | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
When it became clear that voters in Iowa were looking for change, Clinton became the candidate who kept changing -- not the one who symbolized change in Washington.
Lynn Sweet | Lynn Sweet | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
DES MOINES, IA.--Barack Obama's wife Michelle wished her husband "Happy Caucus Day" on Thursday morning, where Obama warmed up for the first-in-the-na...
CNet | Caroline McCarthy | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
Iowa what? Amid the frenzied press coverage over Thursday's too-close-to-call caucuses in the Hawkeye State, 153,226 MySpace.com users have already c...
Huff TV | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
"Is this any way to pick a candidate? ... It's a very, very strange process."
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
Des Moines, Iowa - GOP presidential candidate John McCain is deeply worried that his resurgent national campaign may be stalled by a relatively stron...
Kate Clinton | Posted 01.03.2008 | Living
I wonder if Iowa goes into a deep depression on Friday when everybody decamps for other states.
Craig Crawford | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
A year of sizing up candidates in their living rooms (literally, in many cases) apparently is not enough for many of the most pampered voters in the history of democracy.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Right after the "Christian leader" told the press that he's "for the writers," he drove right past those same unemployed writers, in the middle of a massive labor dispute, in order to pursue his own political ambitions.
Byron Williams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
To be competitive Feb. 5, one need not have the requisite experience to be president, merely the resources to say it on the stump speech and in their 30-second ads in the states holding elections that day.
Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
There was never any question that religion would play a huge role in the electoral pageant now fully unfolding as those frozen Iowans at last begin to caucus.
David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
No matter whether your personal preference wins or loses tonight in Iowa, We The People have already won, because class awareness and class-based politics is on the rise.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects...
Des Moines Register | Jennifer Jacobs | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home