Lynda Waddington has an interesting account of a joint appearance of former Sen. John Edwards and his outspoken wife, Elizabeth, in Cedar Rapids. An Iowan asked about whether John Edwards would fight to ensure that every vote was counted before conceding a general election (harkening back to Kerry’s concession in 2004, before irregularities in [...]

The Register was a little late with its coverage of Sen. John Edwards’s decision to accept matching funds, but the article that did go up included some interesting quotes from Sarah Swisher, Iowa political director for the SEIU. Here’s how the Register presented it:
An Iowa union leader who closely follows politics said she respects [...]

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. [...]

I interviewed former Congressman David Bonior, who is Sen. John Edwards’s national campaign manager, this afternoon. We spoke at length about the campaign’s decision to accept matching funds, and he mentioned that right now it looks like the campaign has about $9 million in cash on hand. Noting that the public financing decision [...]

I’m all for writing critical articles about candidates rather than just rewriting their press releases and posting them, but did CNN really need to use “Edwards eyes $105M from public kitty” as the front-page title link to the story about Edwards’s decision to accept public financing? Really? The story itself is actually fine, [...]

It looks like the oft-maligned practice of shipping celebrity endorsers from out of state into Iowa is starting up again for this campaign cycle. This weekend, “sexy plumber” and Desperate Housewives star James Denton will make a two-day trip through Iowa with former Sen. John Edwards’s daughter Cate.
They will tailgate at the University of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]