When the Iowa Democratic Party started selling tickets to its 2008 Jefferson Jackson Dinner, the state party’s largest fundraiser — and candidate cattle call — of the year, it kicked off something of an arms race between the three top Democratic candidates for president. Each scrambled to buy up as many tickets as possible, [...]

Two weeks ago, it was Iran. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards started attacking Sen. Hillary Clinton very directly on her vote in favor of a resolution classifying Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group. The Clinton campaign, perhaps sensing that the attacks were catching on, sent an uncharacteristically defensive mailing [...]

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 [...]

Sen. Barack Obama highlighted his opposition to the Senate resolution classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group in a mailing today, only days after Sen. Hillary Clinton sent a mailing to Iowans defending her vote in favor of the resolution.
One helpful rule of thumb for determining who is on the right side of [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton took the unusual step of playing defense this weekend, when a direct mail piece explaining the New York Senator’s vote in favor of a resolution condemning Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group hit mailboxes across the state. (The cover of the mailing, left, inexplicably depicts Clinton making a gesture as [...]

I wrote a commentary on Iowa Independent today about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s vulnerability in Iowa. Here’s the gist:
Clinton’s rivals cannot plan to beat the New York Senator by attacking her on specific policy proposals or waiting for her to make gaffes, because Clinton is not going to give anyone enough of that material to [...]

A couple months ago, I blogged about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Iowa TV ad buy, which included spots on the Hallmark Channel (during, among other shows, Walker, Texas Ranger). Clinton remains the only candidate to appear on that network with any regularity, from what I have been able to observe.
But Sen. Barack Obama, not to [...]

Sen. John Edwards’s campaign just wrapped up a conference call to discuss their Iowa SEIU endorsement (and, it turns out, endorsements from other as-yet-unnamed SEIU state councils), and they’re obviously touting it as a “major victory” and an “enormous boost” here.
But they also played up the fact that Sen. Edwards worked very hard to get [...]

It’s a story I have known about for a while, but I waited until I could verify the quotes from the story independently before running it: Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe said in no uncertain terms during an appearance in Grinnell, IA, that Sen. Hillary Clinton would not take back her vote because of her [...]

Although almost every Democratic presidential candidate has taken his or her name off the Michigan ballot today (the deadline is at 3PM central — a little under an hour from now), Sen. Hillary Clinton will not. Keeping her name on the ballot does not technically violate the early state pledge she and the other [...]