Former Sen. John Edwards suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday afternoon after disappointing showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
I wrote previously that Edwards really drove much of the debate during the 2008 Democratic primary. He was the first candidate to release a universal health care plan, the first to really push hard [...]

Traditionally, the Democratic responses to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Speeches have been a reaction. They haven’t set agendas so much as they have explained their disagreements with the President’s agendas. This was, in some ways, an important strategy for enabling Democrats to vote against the President on issues where [...]

My home state of Florida is holding its presidential primary tomorrow in violation of both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee rules. The rule-breaking date was imposed on the state by its Republican state legislature and governor, and those elected officials did not make their decision until after it was absolutely certain [...]

I’m going to editorialize for a moment. I know this is a personal blog, and I should feel comfortable doing it without any pretext, but this is a touchy subject. Here, I attempt to explain why I think it is OK for a Democratic presidential candidate to criticize former president Bill Clinton. [...]

The emerging conventional wisdom seems to be that Sen. Barack Obama has made a huge mistake by engaging former President Bill Clinton on some of Clinton’s attacks against him. Clinton was, after all, a fairly popular Democratic president. He served two terms. He has a legacy. And I’ve heard of polls [...]

Blogging is interesting. One day, you’re totally into it. The next day, you can’t think of anything to write.
And then you make excuses to yourself for it. Excuses like “the template for my blog has gotten old,” or “my web address is childish.”
Today, my fair readers, the well of excuses runs dry. [...]

Just a quick note that Michigan’s primary, which has been virtually nullified on the Democratic side but which could prove decisive on the Republican side, happens today. Iowa Indy’s sister site in Michigan, the Michigan Messenger, is providing all-day coverage.
So far, turnout seems light. Given that no Democrats are running field operations there, [...]

There’s a lot of big news out of New Hampshire today, but one I didn’t expect to hear about — even during the time-filling that happens on cable news — was Sal Mohamed, Iowa’s hometown hero. Constitutionally ineligible to actually be president, Mohamed is on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot today.
Mohamed did not [...]

Kudos to Ann Seltzer, pollster for the Des Moines Register, for releasing numbers that confounded almost every bit of conventional wisdom I had ever heard before this week and getting it right. I do not envy her for having to make the decision to release that poll, knowing that her reputation and that of [...]

The recuperation period has begun. Check out Iowa Caucus coverage at Iowa Indy to get your fix. This blog will be where I cover national politics (including the continuing primaries on both sides) now that it is no longer Iowa-centric.
Perhaps the most important news to come out of last night’s caucuses for those [...]