Recent hay has been made of Michelle Obama’s poetic (almost Obama-esque…) statement in Davenport this week that “If Barack doesn’t win Iowa, it’s just a dream, but if we win Iowa, then we can move the world as it should be.” Commentators read it as the campaign’s official “We have to win Iowa” declaration. [...]

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 [...]

Who won the Democratic Presidential Debate Thursday night at Dartmouth? Everyone but Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The issues that commentators expected would plague the former First Lady’s campaign months ago have begun to emerge. From the “old stuff” Sen. Joe Biden referred to (”He then pointedly said he was talking about ‘policy, policy’ issues,” notes [...]

I posted yesterday that one key indicator of Iowa Caucus success is whether caucus goers have had a chance to meet you — that is, how many appearances a candidate has made around the state. The total number of events were roughly 120 for Sen. John Edwards, 100 for Sen. Barack Obama, and 60 [...]

On OpenLeft Monday evening, Mike Lux had this to say after his trip to Iowa last week:
My overall sense of the Iowa race so far is that Hillary’s team has run the smartest race; that Obama’s team is taking the biggest risk (with the biggest potential upside); and that the Edwards team is still very [...]

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 [...]

I just received a press release from the Clinton campaign that is entirely in Spanish. It’s sent from their normal press address to, from what I can tell, their full press list. This is the first all-Spanish release I have received from a presidential campaign this year, and I find it interesting that [...]

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 [...]

I was at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s health care policy rollout in Des Moines this morning. Maybe I’m just looking for pandering where I shouldn’t be, but the angle I took in my write-up on Iowa Independent has to do with the imminent SEIU endorsement decision. Clinton flies directly from Des Moines to Washington, [...]

Word on the street is that Angelique Pirozzi, who runs Sen. Hillary Cilnton’s Iowa field program, has been asked to leave the campaign. You heard it here first.
I’ve emailed the Clinton campaign for comment, and I will report their response here. In the meantime, one guess for the reason might be the bad [...]