Word on the street is that Angelique Pirozzi, who runs Sen. Hillary Cilnton’s Iowa field program, has been asked to leave the campaign. You heard it here first.
I’ve emailed the Clinton campaign for comment, and I will report their response here. In the meantime, one guess for the reason might be the bad [...]

On the heels of Sen. Barack Obama’s Iraq policy tour through Iowa this week, expect the Obama campaign to release a legislative endorsement announcement very soon. Sen. Joe Biden announced his second House leadership endorsement yesterday, which put the legislative endorsement mini-horserace back in the news. For those keeping score: Clinton is in [...]

When MoveOn.org bought a full-page ad in the New York Times Monday asking the question, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” Republicans and Democrats in Congress criticized it heavily. It created quite a stir, and seemed to be the only thing Republicans felt like they could go on offense about during the Petraeus hearings.
Not [...]

Yesterday, anticipation was mounting for Sen. Barack Obama’s ‘major policy address’ on Iraq in Clinton, IA. Fresh from the Senate hearing in which Obama challenged two prominent proponents of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, many believed that Obama would use the speech as an opportunity to emerge as a leader in the Senate for [...]

Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington, DC, rushed to pressure their presidential candidates to pledge not to campaign in any other states planning to hold primaries before February 5. Republicans did not, perhaps knowing that such a pledge would hurt Rudy Giuliani, the Republican candidate most likely to win a [...]

David Yepsen gets uncharacteristically snarky in his discussion of news that Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned in Florida this week:
One thing we learned during Bill Clinton’s presidency was to study and parse his words carefully.
Apparently we’ll need to do that with his wife should she become president.
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Hmmm. Clinton had pledged: “I shall not campaign or participate [...]

Monday morning at 9:30AM, I’ll be on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “All Things Political” for the half hour. The guest preceding me (starting at 9)? David Yepsen. Should be worth listening to the whole show — which, conveniently, you can do at WPR.org.

The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Heyworth notices that former Sen. Fred Thompson’s daughter may be playing the role of a prop on the former actor’s nascent-but-long-awaited presidential campaign:
Forty minutes into the event, Thompson’s 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, ran onto the convention center stage. Some in the crowd let out a heartfelt ‘aawwww.’ Thompson told Hayden, “Bless [...]

After announcing his candidacy on Jay Leno’s show last night, Fred Thompson flew to Des Moines, IA, with his wife Jeri and their two very young children.  This afternoon a few miles away from me, former Sen. Thompson held his first public event as a declared presidential candidate.
So how did it go?  I was not [...]

Last week, I called New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson out for pandering, writing
Richardson does not give poll-tested answers to questions at events, but neither does he simply give audiences straight talk. In fact, as I have remarked to many who know me over the past few months, Richardson is very much a panderer.
Since then, news [...]