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- Edwards’s Withdrawal Will Show Tension Between Message, Identity Politics
- Sebelius Response to the State of the Union Is Pitch-Perfect
- Florida’s Meaningless Democratic Primary
- Bill Clinton Isn’t God
- Obama Benefits from Spat with Bill Clinton
- A New Era Dawns
- Michigan Primary Coverage
- Sal Mohamed Gets Namedropped on MSNBC
- Assessing the Register, Briefly
- The Iowa Caucuses Happened
- Des Moines Southside Politics
- Falling Tidbits
- If The Last Four Years of My Life Were a YouTube Video
- Clinton Campaign Still Unsure on Student Voting
- Home-Schoolers for Huckabee
- New Strategic Vision (R) Poll Shows Iowa Republicans Still Want Withdrawal from Iraq
- Americans Aren’t Actually Jealous of Iowa and New Hampshire
- Gingrich to Endorse Huckabee?
- ‘Johnny Sunshine’ Is Back
- Obama Wanted to Be President as a Kindergartener
- Think Caucusing Is Easy?
- Plastic Turkey
- Behind the Numbers: WashPost/ABC Poll Shows Obama Leading in Iowa
- Biden and Clinton Won the Debate
- Programming Notes
- Hear Me on the Radio
- What “Plant-Gate” Really Means
- Takeaways from the JJ
- Jefferson Jackson Dinner Programming Note
- Clinton Campaign Gets Caught Planting Questions
- Strickland to Campaign with Clinton at Jefferson Jackson Dinner
- A Tale of Two Endorsements
- Weekly Richardson Hit-job: Now Below The Belt!
- Trippi Pontificates
- Clinton Campaign Recruits from Out of State for Iowa Jefferson Jackson Dinner
- “And we tried, to keep our spirits high”
- David Bonior Prefers Iowa over Home State of Michigan
- Taking a Step Back
- Is Clinton Losing Message Control?
- What Does the New University of Iowa Poll Mean?
- Breaking: Iowa Democratic State Central Committee Adopts Jan. 3 Caucus Date
- The Politics of “Let’s Have a Conversation”
- Huckabee Leaves Door Open to Appoint Chuck Norris as FBI Director
- Sen. Reid and Rep. Clyburn to NH: Pick a Date and Stick with It
- Telecom Immunity: An Iowa Caucus Voting Issue?
- Non-Caucus Links
- Democratic Candidates Calmly Accept Jan 3 Caucus Date
- Democratic Caucuses Will Be Held Jan 3
- How Clinton Could Lose Iowa — Crotchety Edition
- New Campaign Ads Straddle the Folksy/Hokey Divide
- The Democratic Gun Vote
- Snubbed by Clinton, Iowans for Sensible Priorities to Endorse Nov. 9
- Obama Mails His Response to Iowans
- Richardson Stays Serious
- Chuck Norris Endorses Huckabee
- Majority of Iowa Republican Caucus Goers Favor Iraq Withdrawal Within 6 Months
- Clinton: The Answer to Your Question Is in the Mail
- How Clinton Could Lose Iowa
- The Alternative Brownback Obituary
- Is the New Obama Endorsement a Sign?
- Where They Are Advertising: Clinton on Hallmark, Obama on ESPN
- Will Democrats and Republicans Split Caucus Dates?
- Slow News Day Roundup
- As It Turns Out, We Are Influential!
- Environmental Blogging on ‘Blog Action Day’
- More on the SEIU and Edwards
- NY Times Says My Life Has No Purpose
- Edwards to Receive Iowa SEIU Endorsement
- Biden Targets Richardson
- Romney Isn’t Spending As Much Time in Iowa As You’d Think
- Fire Sale Week for State Legislative Endorsements
- Hoping for Audacity
- Brownback Says He Needs Fourth Place in Iowa
- Terry McAuliffe: Clinton Can’t Admit War Vote Was a Mistake Because She’s a Woman
- Richardson on the Lapel Pin
- Clinton Will Remain on Michigan Ballot
- Why Does Brian Williams Know the Caucus Date before Me?
- John Edwards Uses Elizabeth to Say What He Can’t, Even When He’s Standing Nearby
- Messages of the Week: “Middle Class Express,” “Take a Stand,” “Judgment and Experience,” and “Results Matter”
- Ron Paul Could Win Iowa
- This Is the Obama We Were Expecting
- Mike Huckabee’s Latest Update Touts Success in August’s Straw Poll
- Fred Thompson Thinks the Soviet Union Still Exists?
- Elsewhere
- Obama Uses Facebook for Crowd-Building
- Not ‘Remainders’
- Nevada Democratic Party Email on Primary/Caucus Calendar Leaked
- Obama Accidentally Violates Four-State Pledge
- Weekend Roundup
- Fred Thompson Draws Ire of Iowa Press Corps
- SEIU Political Director for Iowa Says She “Admires” Edwards
- What “We Have To Win Iowa” Means These Days
- Problems in Clinton’s Iowa Campaign Overstated, But Still There
- Edwards: $9 Million on Hand
- CNN: “Edwards eyes $105M from public kitty”
- Celebrities Are Coming to Iowa
- On Debate Formats
- Is Dodd Pulling out of Nevada?
- Who Won the Debate?
- Tonight’s Democratic Debate Brought to You by…
- Tonight’s Democratic Debate
- A Brief Programming Note
- Where Hasn’t Clinton Been Yet?
- It’s Official: FL GOP Is Playing Dirty Tricks with Primary Date
- Mike Lux Calls the Iowa Race Wrong
- Richardson’s Online Attack Ad Is Powerful, but…
- Florida GOP Screwing Democrats — and Iowa
- Iowa Gets By Far the Most Attention from Candidates
- Obama Was Smart to Skip Last Night’s Debate
- Post-Debate Analysis
- Iowa Caucus Tidbits
- Tom Tancredo: Not a One Issue Candidate
- Some Thoughts on John Edwards
- How Do You Like the New Design?
- Pandering to the Wrong Crowd
- Hillarycare Redux
- Live Coverage of the Harkin Steak Fry
- Alan Keyes Is Running for President
- Obama Pulls Off ‘Major Coup’
- RUMOR: Top Clinton Staffer in Iowa Fired
- Friday Morning Caucus Roundup
- McCain Found MoveOn “Betray Us” Ad So Disgraceful, He Printed a Poster of It for the Campaign Trail
- Obama Rejects Framing of Iraq Debate But Reinforces Clinton’s Framing of the Presidential Campaign
- Romney Steps Up Florida Campaign
- Clinton and the Four State Pledge
- Join Me on Wisconsin Public Radio at 9:30AM
- Fred Thompson Using Daughter as a Campaign Prop?
- Fred Thompson’s ‘First’ Campaign Appearance
- In Defense of Bill Richardson
- Giving Credit Where It’s Due on Labor Day
- Message to Conservative Iowans: Read the Gay Marriage Decision Before You Respond
- Polk County Judge Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
- New ARG Polls Show Huckabee Surging in Iowa
- Hillary and Giuliani Are Neighbors in Iowa City
- ‘Second Tier’ Candidates Breaking Through in Iowa
- Conservative Iowa Blogger Thinks Immigrants Deserve Better Health Care?
- Democrats Pulling a ‘Ron Paul’ with Online Poll?
- Clinton Volunteer in Iowa Has Such a Bad Experience That He Switches to Obama
- After The Straw Poll, Huckabee and Brownback Downsize Iowa Campaigns
- 51% of Republican Caucus Goers Support Iraq Withdrawal Within Six Months
- Grinnell College Moves Up In Rankings After Marshalltown Columnist Calls Us Communists
- Conservative Iowa Blogger Embarrassed To Have ‘Iowa’ In His Domain Name
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Hillary Clinton Advertises on Hallmark Channel
- Traditional Media and the Blogosphere in Iowa, Part 1
- Fair Tax Is A Force
- Straw Poll Liveblog
- Join Me on Air America Tonight
- Third Eye Blind to Help Obama Reach Iowa Voters Still Living in the 90s
- Ron Paul Advertising on Des Moines Facebook Network
- Hoppity Hop: Caucuses to Leapfrog out of the Spotlight?
- Wonkette Gets Straw Poll Right
- Ron Paul Up On TV
- Who will win labor? 8/7 Debate Roundup
- Ron Paul’s Relaxing Iowa Vacation?
- Why isn’t ‘Brownback Girl’ on Hardball?
- Distinguishing YearlyKos Campaign Events from Iowa Campaign Events
- Off to YearlyKos
- A Primer on Iowa Social Conservatives
- Caucus Bits
- Over on Iowa Independent
- Ruffini Wrong on Ron Paul
- Fred Thompson On Straw Poll Ballot
- McCain Not Looking for First Place in Iowa
- Drudge Sniping at Rudy’s Lateness
- Obama Touts Number of Iowan Donors — Even Though Edwards Is Beating Him
- A Baltimore Break
- Miller and Popma Leave McCain’s Iowa Team
- Stop Pretending that Polling on Congress as a Whole Means Something
- The Coiffe That Just Won’t Die
- Is Hillary Poaching Iowa Endorsements from Edwards?
- DM Register Bloggers Should Stick with What They Know
- Iowa GOP Official Hoping US Attorney Will Challenge Harkin?
- With Friends Like These, Who Needs a Campaign Manager?
- McCain is Dead — “And We Killed Him”
- John Edwards Panders — for the Right Reasons
- Why Media Coverage of the Ames Straw Poll Doesn’t Have To Play into the GOP’s Hands
- Iowa Voice Misses Al Gore’s Point
- This Guy Blogs for AOL
- Lots of News, But No Point Reporting It
- Anything you can do, I can do “meta”
- PeruseMe.com: The Best of What Interests You
- Leading This Blog Forward
- Blog-iversary, Blog-adversity
- Happy VD From Your Partner In Broadcasting
- Feistiest Concert of 2006 (And Maybe ‘Best’)
- “Cred-Seeking Introspection,” Or “Lying To Oneself”
- Returning to Iowa and Saving America
- High-Speed Chase Out Of Town
- Pollution Down To Zero
- Diploticus Mixtapicus
- Home with A Healthy Distrust
- Detransatlanticism
- “America On Trial”
- The Tippity-Top of 2005’s Concerts
- New Design and Address, Same Bat Channel and Questionable Colors
- Speaking “Truth” To Power
- 2005 Music Part I: Honorable Mentions
- Hot End-of-2005-related Action
- Anti-Ninjaism And Things Unrelated To Ninja
- My Weak Weeks in Workers’ Paradises and Beyond
- I Am A Jelly Doughnut
- Tickle Me Emo
- Amsterdam Trip
- Final Fantasy II
- Mac Lethal
- Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down: Arrested Development
- Lali Puna s’nacht
- Blog Digestion
- Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down: Rogue Wave
- My Fantasies Realized
- Sufjan and Autoheroics
- Belgian Insulation
- Use Your Bloggin!
- Fauxhawk O’Clock
- Inspiration: When It Strikes, It Strikes
- This Is Not The Right Picture
- Nietzsche is Dood — G(od)raffiti
- Tired of feeling like this all day?
- Stephen Malkmus…JICKY JICKY JICKY
- “Oh Thank Heaven” … or “Koben-cabana Bonanza”
- Maarx’s House
- FUN HAUS
- I call it “View From My Window”
- Olde Universiteit
- Transatlanticism
- Much-Awaited Debauchery
- When the Spanish-speaking Deregulation Revolution comes…
- Blog Clog
- Saul Williams Is Not The Name Of A Country And Western Singer
- Aboot Hurrr
- The Bravery Are Seriously OK
- Seen in Grinnell, IA — Seriously
- “I Ain’t Clamin’ To Reign”
- Free God! T-shirt! OK!
- Hurrrrrrricane!
- I’m A Lucky Boy
- Me This Morning
- Arrrgh! Global warming she blows!
- Sitting, Dejected — Again
- My Colleague Rosie
- Future Herd
- More On The Secret
- Shhhh! Secret Machines!
- Obselescence
- An Open Letter To Indie Darlings
- “Porous” Means Awesome
- Total Politicalness!
- Cityplace Patrons Take Heed
- Aimeeisnot: Dabbling in Living, Journaling
- Going to the dentist, sideways
- LJ Fodder
- Tom’s A Bitch
- I love the 80s — ironically?
- Puritan Vis. — TKO!
- The R-Line Rox My Worldview
- Review of 40 oz. to Bad Santaria
- Thefacebook Thepicture Thechoices
- New Design
- I’m Safe, and Sounds
- The Life of a Concert Critic
- A New Endeavor
- Running Out Of PopMatters Puns
- The Bravery are Badasses
- Three Jagjaguwars
- The Album Leaf + Black Mountain + Roots of Orchis + Mar Mar
- Calvin Johnson
- Decemberists
- Announcing the Apple iProduct
- Safe and Sound, and Another Review
- Canadian Adventure
- Minus (the audience) Story + Thunderbirds Are (alone) Now
- Pop It Like It’s Hotttt
- Public Reasonableness
- And now, a poem
- My Review Matters
- Your Rock And Roll Lifestyle (Reviewing Cake’s Pressure Chief)
- Current Concerts List
- An Open Letter To Metallica
- I Heart Huckabees
- Best Concerts of 2004
- Concert Review: Modest Mouse
- Playlist: Folk-Inspired Indie
- Pitchfork Column: Puritan Blister #2
- Concert
- Introduction
Chase Martyn observes and analyzes politics from Des Moines, IA, capital of 2008's first caucus state. He is also Managing Editor of the 