That’s what she has up her sleeve: there is no pre-rally on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s public schedule at this point, but we knew she would be doing something. Now that she has been endorsed by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, she has also announced that she will be bringing Strickland with her to the Jefferson [...]

Rudy Giiuliani received the surprising endorsement of Pat Robertson, arguably the most powerful social conservative leader alive, in Washington, DC, today. Networks covered the two figures’ joint appearance to announce the endorsement live, and the blogs are chattering about it. Sen. John McCain received the endorsement of former candidate Sen. Sam Brownback, one [...]

Big-name columnist/commentator Chuck Offenburger caught Gov. Bill Richardson at a campaign stop Sunday. Richardson gave what Offenburger characterized as a “tremendous 45-minute speech,” but that’s not even half the story:
…but the more he starting lifting his arms, putting his hands behind his head and sticking his hands in his jeans’ front pockets, well, those [...]

John Deeth covered former Sen. John Edwards’s “major foreign policy address” in Iowa City today for Iowa Independent, and he spoke briefly with Joe Trippi at the beginning. Here’s what Trippi had to say about Clinton and, perhaps more interestingly, about Obama having missed his chance to make a dent in the race:
The focus [...]

When the Iowa Democratic Party started selling tickets to its 2008 Jefferson Jackson Dinner, the state party’s largest fundraiser — and candidate cattle call — of the year, it kicked off something of an arms race between the three top Democratic candidates for president. Each scrambled to buy up as many tickets as possible, [...]

Said John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. And we did. But nobody in presidential politics wanted to talk about anything but Tuesday night’s debate. Sen. Hillary Clinton has hardly even tried, it seems, to take our minds off of it (which, I suppose, says something about what her campaign is thinking).
So I’m [...]

Former Michigan Congressman David Bonior, who is former Sen. John Edwards’s national campaign manager, wrote an op-ed for Iowa Independent on why he supported Edwards taking his name off the Michigan ballot:
John Edwards’ decision has generated a lot of controversy, especially in Michigan - a state that I had the honor of representing in Congress [...]