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 [...]

Big-name columnist/commentator Chuck Offenburger caught Gov. Bill Richardson at a campaign stop Sunday. Richardson gave what Offenburger characterized as a “tremendous 45-minute speech,” but that’s not even half the story:
…but the more he starting lifting his arms, putting his hands behind his head and sticking his hands in his jeans’ front pockets, well, those [...]

In Iowa, Democrats have lost elections over gun control issues. When I knocked doors in rural areas in 2004 for a State House candidate I was volunteering for, I heard constant complaints from no-party voters who shut the door in my face because my candidate wanted to take their guns away. That was [...]

I wrote a piece over the weekend on Iowa Independent with the headline “Richardson Gets Serious.” Today, Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign continues their theme of seriousness in a new TV ad, set to air in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The 60-second ad, entitled “Only One,” highlights a trip Richardson made to Iraq to rescue [...]

Sen. Joe Biden may have had his nihilator gators on Friday, because, to quote Snoop Dogg’s remix of 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.,” his “pimp hand” was “way strong.” (I didn’t want to quote from misogynous rap lyrics to describe what happened, but I can’t think of better language to describe what I witnessed.) The [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson wears the American flag lapel pin, and he thinks “it’s perfectly good to wear it.” I wonder if wearing a lapel pin on CNN’s Situation Room was a coincidence, or if he thought there was a chance someone might ask him about it…
CNN’s Don Lemon: I see you’re wearing your [...]

Today Gov. Bill Richardson released a powerful YouTube video attacking all of his opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination for their plans to leave residual forces on the ground in Iraq. The ad is extremely critical, and it includes cameo appearances from big name bloggers who aren’t necessarily endorsing Richardson’s candidacy, but are (at [...]

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 [...]

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says what he thinks his audience wants to hear. But he isn’t always good at knowing what that is. He said he thought homosexuality was a choice at the LGBT forum, he said Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status was God’s will in front of an Iowa crowd to whom that [...]

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 [...]