Conservative e-rag WorldNetDaily broke the news this morning that Alan Keyes, best known for running two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is running for President again this year:
Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he’s “unmoved” by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the “key [...]

When MoveOn.org bought a full-page ad in the New York Times Monday asking the question, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” Republicans and Democrats in Congress criticized it heavily. It created quite a stir, and seemed to be the only thing Republicans felt like they could go on offense about during the Petraeus hearings.
Not [...]

David Yepsen gets uncharacteristically snarky in his discussion of news that Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned in Florida this week:
One thing we learned during Bill Clinton’s presidency was to study and parse his words carefully.
Apparently we’ll need to do that with his wife should she become president.
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Hmmm. Clinton had pledged: “I shall not campaign or participate [...]

Monday morning at 9:30AM, I’ll be on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “All Things Political” for the half hour. The guest preceding me (starting at 9)? David Yepsen. Should be worth listening to the whole show — which, conveniently, you can do at WPR.org.

The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Heyworth notices that former Sen. Fred Thompson’s daughter may be playing the role of a prop on the former actor’s nascent-but-long-awaited presidential campaign:
Forty minutes into the event, Thompson’s 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, ran onto the convention center stage. Some in the crowd let out a heartfelt ‘aawwww.’ Thompson told Hayden, “Bless [...]

After announcing his candidacy on Jay Leno’s show last night, Fred Thompson flew to Des Moines, IA, with his wife Jeri and their two very young children.  This afternoon a few miles away from me, former Sen. Thompson held his first public event as a declared presidential candidate.
So how did it go?  I was not [...]

New reasons emerged this week to doubt the tier system most commentators use to describe the 2008 presidential horse race.
Conventional wisdom — here in Iowa and across the country — dictates that the three candidates to watch on the Democratic side are Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, and former Sen. John Edwards.
Sen. Chris Dodd, [...]

“Mainstream Iowan,” a blog that is decidedly not mainstream, writes this morning that illegal immigration is “a public health issue for all Americans.”
Under a photo of a young hispanic male wearing a scary SARS mask, the blogger recounts this story:
When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old [...]

noneed4thneed of Century of the Common Iowan launched a new online poll last week to measure his readers’ support of Democratic presidential candidates.  He held them in the past, and the results were always unscientific but interesting to see.  Now that campaigns are taking Iowa blogs a bit more seriously, however, Iowa bloggers can’t assume [...]

Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central noticed this nugget in the latest Strategic Vision poll of likely caucus goers:
 4. Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? (Republicans Only)
Yes [...]