(Hat-tip Ben Smith.)

On the eve of former President Bill Clinton’s visits to three Iowa colleges, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign remains unsure of whether the roughly 40% of Iowa college students who come from out of state should participate in the January 3 caucuses.
One student at Grinnell College, where over 80% of the student body is not from [...]

The Register had a big piece about home schoolers supporting former Gov. Mike Huckabee. For some, it was news. For readers of Iowa Independent last July, it may not have come as much of a surprise.

I don’t put much stock in polls, and particularly not in the Republican firm Strategic Vision’s polls, as a predictor of caucus results. You can’t poll a race in which only 10% of the electorate participates — especially when you can’t know which 10% it will be.
But I do follow Strategic Vision’s polls because [...]

The most recent national phone survey conducted by Rasmussen found that just 24% of Americans believe Iowa and New Hampshire are lucky because of the attention they are getting from presidential candidates at this time of year. Nearly twice as many — 45% — think we are unlucky.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey [...]

That’s the word on the street, but I have no confirmation of it. The Huckabee campaign says they will have a “major” endorsement in about 40 minutes, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich happens to be in town for a conference of social conservatives.
If it’s true, it could be a major institutional boon for [...]

Perhaps that front page article in the Register a week or so ago (and all of the blogospheric banter leading up to it) about the two different John Edwardses was a bit premature, as we see the Edwards campaign use the last month of the Iowa Caucuses to tie everything the former senator said in [...]

Sen. Barack Obama has said on the campaign trail that he has not been planning to run for President for decades, an indirect jab at Sen. Hillary Clinton, who by some accounts has been planning it. Here’s part of the Clinton campaign’s press release responding to Obama’s claim:
In third grade, Senator Obama wrote an [...]