Lynda Waddington has an interesting account of a joint appearance of former Sen. John Edwards and his outspoken wife, Elizabeth, in Cedar Rapids. An Iowan asked about whether John Edwards would fight to ensure that every vote was counted before conceding a general election (harkening back to Kerry’s concession in 2004, before irregularities in [...]

Sen. Barack Obama is traveling through Iowa for four days this week on his “Judgment and Experience” tour. Former Sen. John Edwards launches his 17-county “Take a Stand” tour today. Sen. Hillary Clinton launches her “Middle Class Express” bus trip tomorrow. Sen. Chris Dodd will host “Results Matter” town hall meetings this [...]

I’m somewhat surprised to be saying this, and it took me a while to come to this conclusion, but I think — given the right set of circumstances — Republican Rep. Ron Paul could win the Iowa Caucuses. I’m not going to say it’s likely, but it isn’t impossible.
Here’s why it could happen:

Huge fundraising: [...]

Today in Iowa, ABC News out of Cedar Rapids asked Sen. Barack Obama why he wasn’t wearing an American flag lapel pin. I don’t gush about presidential candidates here, but I do think this answer shows a glimmer of the candidate that people like me were expecting Obama to be. Here’s how ABC [...]

When Gov. Mike Huckabee’s campaign felt the need to send an email update to its list this afternoon, they must have been struggling for material. Or maybe they just don’t know the best practices for crafting campaign emails. Either way, for their future reference, you shouldn’t begin your “Iowa Update” with two-month-old news [...]

Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson interviewed former Sen. Fred Thompson today, and she posted a partial transcript to her blog.
She asked him about Iran, and his answer included the statement, “I’m afraid that the Soviet Union & China are not ever going to do anything that’s going to hurt them that badly but we need to [...]

Not a whole lot of blogging time for me today, so here are some things to read:
Marc Ambinder coins the term “Doddnovations“:
Dodd has plenty of intangibles, but they’re not the intangibles this election cycle is rewarding so far. That said, his campaign itself is near flawless; his argument is pitch-perfect and attuned to his audience. [...]

An enterprising Ron Paul supporter did this before the Straw Poll, but this is the first Democratic Facebook flyer I’ve seen in the Des Moines network:

I know they’re as cautious as anyone when it comes to campaign finance stuff, but do ads like these need a “paid for”?

I’m going to do these types of posts a lot, but I don’t want to call them “Remainders” because everybody else does that. What’s a good name? What’s in a name?
At Off The Bus, Ron Levitt talks about “shadow campaigns” being run by presidential candidate spouses in Florida, so as to avoid the [...]

In Nevada, a state Democratic party “email to supporters” that apparently wasn’t public (I’m not sure how many “supporters” the email went out to) leaked details of what may be the new primary calendar:
On Friday, the Nevada Democratic Party sent a “caucus update” e-mail to supporters. “Today, it appears that Nevada’s interests and significance in [...]