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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, [...]

Not quite, as John Deeth writes today.
Weren’t reading Iowa Indy over the holiday week last week? Here’s what you missed:
Several profiles of candidates’ family members as part of Lynda Waddington’s “All in the Family” series: Cate Edwards, Jill Biden, Craig and Mary Romney, Jackie Dodd, Hunter Biden, and Barbara Richardson. And Doug Burns [...]

One wonders if Cyclone Conservatives posted this photo on purpose as part of a Thanksgiving Day message.
It happens to be the photo of President George W. Bush serving our troops a plastic turkey, from Thanksgiving of 2003.

One part of presidential politics that fascinates me is how certain national news stories permeate campaign narratives in Iowa and others do not. Generally, I think the Iowa press does a good job filtering out the real stories from the dumb stuff. Former Sen. John Edwards’s $400 haircut did not make nearly the [...]

Because sometimes in Iowa things happen that don’t have to do with the Caucus date, here are some other stories to check out:
Gordon Fischer wants Facebook friends.
Cyclone Conservatives is getting more publicity than any blogs that I am involved with.
The wetness of this year’s harvest season is frustrating farmers.
Slate’s analysis of Iowa City’s 21-bars referendum [...]

South Carolina State Rep. Fletcher Smith, who served as co-chair of Gov. Bill Richardson’s campaign in that state before defecting to Sen. Joe Biden’s campaign, speaks.
Garance Franke-Ruta follows up on the question of how influential blogs are in Iowa.
Sen. Barack Obama gave the Chicago Tribune surprising access to details of its field campaign, revealing that [...]

I already blogged about the New York Times piece claiming that blogs in Iowa don’t have much of an impact on actual Iowans, but John Deeth’s liveblog of Edwards’s SEIU endorsement appearance in Johnson County raised my spirits a bit. Talking to University of Iowa political scientist and pollster David Redlawsk, Deeth writes:
We exchange [...]

The New York Times published an article yesterday with the headline, “The Web, Despite Its Promise, Fails to Snare Iowa Voters.” In it, the TImes found Iowans who said they have never read a blog. And then they quoted Joe Trippi, who admitted that Iowans don’t use as many of the Edwards campaign’s [...]

I just received a press release from the Clinton campaign that is entirely in Spanish. It’s sent from their normal press address to, from what I can tell, their full press list. This is the first all-Spanish release I have received from a presidential campaign this year, and I find it interesting that [...]