Iowa

Obama: "The Real Gamble Is Having The Same Old Folks Doing The Same Old Things And Expecting A Different Result"

New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics

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The presidential candidates spent the last Sunday before the Iowa caucuses attending church services and staging big rallies to make last-minutes appe...

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What's the Matter with Iowa?

John Fund | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics

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John Fund

The Iowa caucuses are far from a Norman Rockwell exercise in small-town democracy. They may not be as bad as the "smoke-filled rooms" of yore, but give me a simple primary election any day.

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Edwards: Obama Too "Nice" For The Presidency

New York Times | Julie Bosman and David Kirkpatrick | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics

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The presidential candidates spent the last Sunday before the Iowa caucuses attending church services and staging big rallies to make last-minutes appe...

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Turning Up The Heat

AP | Ron Fournier | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

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Mike Huckabee says John McCain is a hero. McCain says Huckabee is a good man. And they both seem to agree on this: Mitt Romney is neither. The Republ...

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Could Obama and Edwards Team Up in the Caucuses?

Paul Loeb | Posted 12.30.2007 | Home

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Paul Loeb

Obviously Barack Obama and John Edwards are competing with each other, but the caucuses in Iowa, Nevada, and Washington State give the two campaigns a...

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Marc Cooper

Will Edwards Really Win Iowa?

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

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East Des Moines, Iowa -- By local weather standards, it's a great Sunday morning. Bitter cold but no snow and no wind. And Alise Roderer, a young fie...

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Did Obama Announce Key Health Plan Change On Live TV?

Politico | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

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Obama floats a new detail -- at least one I hadn't heard -- of how he might deal with the "free rider" problem on his healthcare plan -- healthy young...

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Ground War: Iowa Sees Largest Turnout Effort In History

Boston Globe | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

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John Edwards has the practice, having placed second in the last Iowa caucuses and visited more counties than anyone else. Barack Obama has the buzz, w...

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New Iowa Poll: Edwards Surges, Huck's Bubble Bursts

McClatchy | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

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John Edwards has clawed his way into contention to win Iowa's caucuses on Thursday in the first vote for the Democratic presidential nomination, gaini...

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Marc Cooper

Hillary's Final Strategy: Be Afraid

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics

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Eldridge, Iowa - Barack Obama and John Edwards might want to change the world. But Hillary Clinton wants to protect you against it. That's the unmist...

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Edwards Blasts Obama for Criticizing Hillary's Claim That Obama Criticized Edwards

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

The former North Carolina senator said that the Illinois senator's criticism of the New York senator for claiming that the Illinois senator had criticized the North Carolina senator was "an attempt to confuse the voters."

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We Are Winning On Trade -- Pick Your Candidate

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

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Jonathan Tasini

If a Democrat wins the presidency, she or he will have, generally speaking, staked out a position on trade that begins to move us away from the disaster of Republican and Democratic trade policy over the past several decades.

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Marc Cooper: Live Iowa Campaign Journal

Marc Cooper | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home

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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.

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Closing Arguments in Iowa

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

In their closing arguments, the candidates are essentially assuming the argument about direction is over; the question is who can get it done.

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Hillary's War

Stephen Elliott | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

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Stephen Elliott

Now we're looking at the rebirth of the Taliban in Afghanistan and a rapidly destabilizing Pakistan. The connections with our failed adventure in Iraq are beyond obvious.

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John Edwards' Money Problems

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home

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Nathaniel Bach

Haircuts and hedge funds are the least of Edwards' money problems. By signing up for public financing he's put himself at the mercy of 527s, and at a distinct disadvantage against any GOP opponent.

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Slim Pickins

Bob Franken | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

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Bob Franken

My message then to the people of Iowa is: Good Luck. You might be remembered as the ones who started one of these people on the road to the Presidency.

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Sam Stein

Post X-Mas Poll Shows Nomination Race As Tight As Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

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A few days removed from the Christmas Break and the Democratic race for the presidential nomination is as tight as ever. In a recently released Bloom...

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Jason Linkins

Huckabee Lays Waste To Area Fauna

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

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Nothing quite captures the pomp and pageantry of the Iowa Caucuses as well as that moment when one of the candidates trudges out into some snow-covere...

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Cash-Poor Thompson Drops TV Ads In Iowa

Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

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When I got a generic fundraising e-mail "from" Fred Thompson campaign manager Bill Lacy last night offering "a quick update" on the effort to get "on ...

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Hillary Clinton's Serious Iowa Problem

Dave "Mudcat" Saunders | Posted 12.27.2007 | Home

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Dave

With a campaign team that looks like the 1927 Yankees and with all the resources she has thrown at Iowa, a bad showing from Hillary can only reinforce what so many of us have been saying all along.

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Edwards Campaign May Have Expected Union Group's 527 Ads In Iowa

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

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In the final days before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, John Edwards has stepped up his criticism of outside organizations that spend money to influenc...

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Three Reasons to Kill Yourself

Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

When the Romney people see the Huckabee pheasant-hunting footage, they contact every political reporter they know: Look how fat Huckabee looks in that get-up! Look at those jowls! Look at that goofy unpresidential hat! What a blunder!

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Sam Stein

Edwards Insists Hands Are Tied Over Controversial Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

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Capping off a public squabble between Barack Obama and John Edwards, an outside group with ties to Edwards released television advertisements on Wedne...

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How Close Does Hillary Think Iowa Could Be? This Close

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.26.2007 | Media

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Talk about lowering expectations. From Hillary Clinton's campaign email today soliciting last-ditch contributions before the December 31st deadline: W...

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