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 [...]

Writing for the Huffington Post, Bev Davis breaks up the neighborhoods of Des Moines and predicts which candidates they will support.
The surprising prediction was for the Southside:
Obama takes it. Edwards comes in second. Hillary Clinton rides in third, unless Biden isn’t viable and then his supporters will actually decide the final outcome.
Mostly middle-class and white, [...]

This blog has been neglected for its far busier cousin, Iowa Independent, where I have been spending most of my time.
But not to fear, I will be posting ideas as they come into my head to this blog over the coming days. And once the caucuses are over, I’ll continue writing about the presidential [...]

(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 [...]