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 [...]

The Republican Party of Iowa is set to announce that it has set the date of its Caucuses for January 3. Will the Iowa Democratic Party follow suit?
Over the past few months, it has generally sounded like they wanted to keep their date in line with the Republicans. Their statement tonight? Pretty [...]

South Carolina State Rep. Fletcher Smith, who served as co-chair of Gov. Bill Richardson’s campaign in that state before defecting to Sen. Joe Biden’s campaign, speaks.
Garance Franke-Ruta follows up on the question of how influential blogs are in Iowa.
Sen. Barack Obama gave the Chicago Tribune surprising access to details of its field campaign, revealing that [...]

Today is Blog Action Day, and this year’s topic is the environment. Participating bloggers are encouraged to write a post about environmental issues, but not to post something that wouldn’t fit into the normal mold of their blog. Keeping with those instructions, I just wanted to update you on how environmental organizations are [...]

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 [...]

I talked about this on Taylor Marsh’s show Wednesday (in case you didn’t know, I’m Taylor’s regular Wednesday guest), and now NBC News has the tip. Former Sen. John Edwards will receive the endorsement of the SEIU’s Iowa Local Monday:
At 5:30pm Monday ET in Iowa city, John Edwards will get SEIU-Iowa nod and the [...]

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 [...]

This got past me, because Gov. Mitt Romney had worked so hard to cultivate his image as the one GOP front-runner who is spending time in Iowa. But according to the Washington Post’s candidate tracker, Romney has spent only three days in Iowa (all in mid-September) over the past two months. At some [...]

This week has been a big one for state legislative endorsements in Iowa. Sen. Joe Biden’s campaign announced State Rep. McKinley Bailey’s endorsement Thursday. Bailey is a veteran of the Iraq War, but he isn’t the only Iraq vet to endorse this week: State Rep. Ray Zirkelbach, who served in Iraq during the [...]

Sen. Barack Obama penned an op-ed in today’s Manchester Union-Leader in which he names names:
Sen. Clinton says she was merely voting for more diplomacy, not war with Iran. If this has a familiar ring, it should. Five years after the original vote for war in Iraq, Sen. Clinton has argued that her vote was not [...]