To remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on earth, this week I am publishing my emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a video about the caucus process.
Will Bower | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."
Will Bower | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.
Will Bower | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home
What now? Our primary goal is to unite the millions of disaffected Democrats and to hold the DNC and its leadership accountable this November and beyond, working to defeat key players and create fairer elections.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
While the nominating system probably should be reformed, doing that will not be simple. Most of the easy solutions to fixing the nominating system are neither easy nor solutions.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
In 2008 the popular vote isn't really popular: 13 states held caucuses instead of primaries. Because of the challenges of participating in caucuses, far fewer people vote in caucus states.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Clinton's strategy to win the nomination is the exact opposite of Obama's -- she recognized that the small Western and Southern states he won are not in play for the Democrats.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
If Barack Obama is really the one to beat, then why should he resist courting Michigan and Florida voters in a June contest?
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.04.2008 | Home
The Clinton camp called a press conference tonight, which I attended telephonically, to accuse the Obama Texas campaign of "statewide systemic" abuses of the caucus process.
Ann Medlock | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The remote Puget Sound island where I live joined the great Aught Eight election excitement Saturday, the Democratic caucus bringing out so many citiz...
Sara Davidson | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
It's time for a grassroots uprising to demand national popular elections, both for the nominees and the president. Let every citizen have an equal vote.
Paul Abrams | Posted 02.09.2008 | Politics
Howard Dean should solicit proxies from the 796 superdelegates to have him vote them for the candidate that wins the elected delegate count.
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics
Las Vegas, Nevada - Predicting a "record turn-out" for Saturday's presidential caucuses, Barack Obama closed out his Silver State campaign last night ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
I apologize in advance for the disjointed nature of this week's column. There are a lot of odds and ends to cover, including tomorrow's primary picks...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.17.2008 | Home
Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
Las Vegas, NV -- Forty-eight hours to go before Saturday's Democratic caucuses and it's strictly battle-station mode at the headquarters of the 60,000...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Special All-Election Edition Well, it looks like I owe some young folks an apology. To the youth of Iowa: Sorry! I've been predicting for a wh...
Beverly Davis | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
DES MOINES -- In the final hours before the Iowa caucuses, the top two Republican candidates continued their verbal slugfest by trading accusations o...
Dan Treul | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home
By Dan Treul Al Cannistraro, Jacqueline Cotrell, Christine Escobar, Kim Farris, Mike Germain, Kerri Glover, Matthew Moll, Gale Walden, Ellen Emerson ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
Tomorrow's Iowa caucuses are certainly reaping a bumper crop of blather in the news. Pundits everywhere are weighing in on every aspect of both the D...
Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
The Iowa Caucus is about personalities: who can eat more corndogs or pumps hands better or has the most honest face when he looks them in the eyes.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
After a couple of years of political transition that have seen Europe's own warmongers/Bush poodles and corrupt leaders retiring or getting kicked out of office, there is eager anticipation for the departure of Bush.
Beverly Davis | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home
"So what do bedbug bites look like?" OffTheBus asked Joe Biden's Iowa political director, Danny O'Brien. "They're really big and round and itch like crazy," said O'Brien.
Beverly Davis | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home
DES MOINES -- Lynn Sweet, the big dog political columnist for the Chicago Sun Times - fond of wearing clogs on the campaign trial, snapping photograph...
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home
Retail campaigns like those run in Iowa are not just bubbles, but veritable self-contained ecospheres. Candidate events are packed with self-selecting audiences and trying to venture a guess as to who's ahead and who's not, who's got the Big Mo or the Big Slow, simply by sizing up campaign rallies is a fool's errand.
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Maegan Carberry | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics