Big, important YearlyKos info-dump is forthcoming, I think.  Until I get that up, I thought it might be interesting to talk a bit about the differences between seeing a candidate in Iowa and seeing a candidate at a progressive bloggers’ convention.  This was going to be long and developed, but it turned out that there [...]

I’m about to get on a plane to fly to Chicago for YearlyKos.  I’ll likely post occasional updates and thoughts from the convention throughout the weekend, but only when inspiration strikes.  To get in touch with me, shoot an email to chase [at] iowaindependent.com or give me a call.

Here’s a little of what the mainstream Iowa media have been saying recently:
Using unfortunately-hackneyed boxing metaphors, Todd Dorman (Lee Newspapers) identifies the fundamental issues of the 2008 presidential campaign. A little “big picture” for me, but still noteworthy.
David Yepsen (Des Moines Register) blogs that the Obama-Hillary feud only helps the candidates not yet involved. [...]

When Register columnist Ken Fuson wrote in 2005, “Perhaps you have not heard of blogs. The name derives from a combination of ‘blather’ and ‘logorrhea’,” he probably did not expect his fair paper to have dozens of bloggers spewing their thoughts through the series of tubes we have constructed while sitting in our underwear watching [...]