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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a constant tendency to report on poll numbers when they come out that even I succumb to, despite having noted in Iowa Independent’s Power Rankings that “No poll is definitive, nor is any one columnist or pundit. Determining which Iowans will show up to participate in a caucus on a wintry January night [...]

In last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton was prepared for anything her opponents threw at her. The first ten minutes set the tone of the rest of the night, as both Clinton herself and her fans in the audience slapped down any overt attempts to criticize her. It changed the dynamics [...]

Tonight, I’ll be in Iowa City on the campus of the University of Iowa for the CNN/Nevada Democratic presidential debate. Iowa Independent has gotten together a group of undecided Iowa college students to watch the debate, and I’ll be asking them questions in a focus group-style discussion afterwards. Video of it will be [...]

A lot of folks seem to think this story is the worst thing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign could have ever done. Others think it’s no big deal at all. Here’s how I see it:
First, I am not surprised by it in the least. The Clinton campaign is scripted, from beginning to end, [...]

Yeah, it’s, like, a day late. Perhaps a dollar short. But here are some of the more interesting tidbits from the 2007 Jefferson Jackson Dinner:

Unlike 2003, there were no dirigibles in the house. Sen. Chris Dodd had one miniature blimp flying outside, but it carried no new slogan.
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s new line, [...]

We all know it happens, but we don’t always have reasons to believe that the candidate is aware that it is happening. Sen. Hillary Clinton, though, apparently knew whom to call on at a campaign stop in Newton, and she pretended like it wasn’t planned.
My friend Pat Caldwell, writing for the Grinnell College newspaper, [...]