Former Vice Presidential candidate, Alaska governor and reality TV star Sarah Palin isn't ready to throw her name in the 2012 presidential race -- but she doesn't want to be taken out of it either. Palin continued to tease the possibility of a White House run at a Tea Party rally in Indianola, Iowa Saturday. Read More
A corn dog.
A hot dog.
He was, sadly, Read More
That was awkward. When Stephen Colbert was invited to testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security, it was bound to be an interesting moment for C-SPAN viewers. And Colbert didn't disappoint, offering up a spirited in-character attack on undocumented workers that was actually a sly attempt to undermine opponents of Read More
And therein lies Hillary Clinton's predicament: If she loses to Barack Obama on Tuesday night, she will have suffered back-to-back defeats in the lead-off states, both in raw Read More
Yesterday's Times report from Iowa was produced to an Allman Brothers soundtrack.
The newspaper's bureau in Des Moines is a conference room on the third floor of a building which, in the large banquet room immediately through the wall, had booked Ron Paul's fifth-place victory party.Hillary-beat reporter Pat Healy said that "one second it's the quiet Read More
The Clinton campaign is playing up the idea that the results of Iowa have historically been an aberration. "Well, you know Iowa does not have the best track record in determining who the party's nominee is," Hillary said earlier today. "Everybody knows that." Except she's wrong. There have been seven meaningful Iowa caucuses in Read More
It's not an ideal analogy, though.
It is true that Clinton's first '92 win was in Georgia and that the state didn't vote Read More
Sometime on Thursday night, at least one Democrat and Republican will be declared “winners” of the Iowa caucuses. These candidates may or may not have received the most votes; the declaration will be a subjective judgment by the media.
And no matter what New Hampshire’s proudly independent voters say, history shows that this verdict will spill Read More
“If he thinks there is a vacuum for good ideas, I don’t think he has looked at the candidates Read More
It was a notably pointed remark from Mr. Obama, who often gets more gently humorous mileage out of his distant shared heritage with the vice-president. But Read More
On Saturday night, after a quick misstep into a place called Scooters (fog machine, dance floor grinding) during a search for a TV showing the Giants-Patriots game, I found the bar of the Hotel Ottumwa, where the owner, Tim Schwartz, had also just returned from a Barack Obama event at the local high school.
“I Read More
And yet, thanks to two of her surrogates, it ended up being a rough press day.
After Clinton finished her last event in Cedar Falls, the Read More
That was not the case on Ridgewood Street in Ames on Dec. 15, when some of Hillary Clinton’s richest and most Read More
That may sound like an oddly obvious message for a presidential campaign, but for Clinton, who has faced six weeks of bad press coverage and 15 years of cartoonish characterizations from all across the political spectrum, it is an essential point that she is now emphasizing in an attempt to Read More
