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 [...]

Since last night’s Democratic debate (I wrote my analysis here), I have been in a thinking mood. I had a really interesting discussion (some might say “argument”) with Taylor Marsh on her show this afternoon, and I have been watching the political coverage online and on TV, but mostly I have been trying to [...]

John Beaudoin, who runs the Woodbine Twiner newspaper (calling the paper’s circulation “small” would probably be an overstatement), penned an opinion piece criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton on essentially the same grounds as my commentary from last week. He begins, “The signs are in your yard. You wear the ‘Hillary ‘08′ buttons. But do you [...]

Last night, the Iowa Christian Alliance held a dinner and invited former Sen. Fred Thompson, who came to the dinner as part of his second swing through Iowa as a presidential candidate. Thompson was told he would not have an opportunity to speak at the dinner, only to attend.
Iowa Independent’s Jay Wagner described how [...]

Two weeks ago today, I broke the story that Angelique Pirozzi, who was Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Caucus Director(responsible for overseeing the campaign’s field program in Iowa), was fired.
Cityview’s Civic Skinny took a little longer getting to it, covering it this week, but they overstate the problem a little bit, calling it a “revolving door”:
Pirozzi’s departure [...]

Thursday evening, AARP and Iowa Public Television cosponsored a Democratic presidential debate focusing on health care and economic security. There were no major position switches, although a few candidates used the event as an opportunity to unveil new policy proposals (I got press releases about proposals affecting retirees and/or health care from both Edwards [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton has been receiving the most media attention among Democratic presidential candidates this week because of her new health care plan. Sen. Barack Obama was featured on NBC Nightly News Monday night to talk about, among other things, the tax proposal he is rolling out this week. Meanwhile, the national media [...]

On the heels of Sen. Barack Obama’s Iraq policy tour through Iowa this week, expect the Obama campaign to release a legislative endorsement announcement very soon. Sen. Joe Biden announced his second House leadership endorsement yesterday, which put the legislative endorsement mini-horserace back in the news. For those keeping score: Clinton is in [...]

David Yepsen gets uncharacteristically snarky in his discussion of news that Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned in Florida this week:
One thing we learned during Bill Clinton’s presidency was to study and parse his words carefully.
Apparently we’ll need to do that with his wife should she become president.
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Hmmm. Clinton had pledged: “I shall not campaign or participate [...]