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At Obama’s Iowa HQ, a ‘swamp’ is born

DES MOINES, Iowa, 7:15 PM – The floor of Senator Barack Obama’s Des Moines Iowa headquarters is soaked. Two canvassers walk in wearing thick-soled North […]

Candidates pass over small-town Iowan Yalies

YALE, Iowa, 2:21 p.m. — George Dorr has been driving tractor trailers for 60 years – “Since I was twenty-something,” he says. Now six months […]

Political junkies battle boredom, swap stories on back wall

PERRY, Iowa, 12:32 p.m. — The back wall of a political event is a little like a fraternity. Photographers and reporters lean against the wall, […]

Rallying crowd with sense of urgency, Obama calls ’08 a ‘defining moment’

PERRY, Iowa, 12:10 p.m. — Perry, Iowa is a small town of 7,000 at the intersection of Iowa highways 141 and 144. The main drag […]

Obama hopes for Willie Mays, gets Dick Cheney

PERRY, Iowa, 12:10 PM – Perry, Iowa is a little town of 7,000 at the intersection of Iowa highways 141 and 144. The main drag […]

In morph from stylist to general, Edwards rallies his ‘fighters’

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards called attention to the growing divide between moneyed corporate interests and working man’s values at a rally in Sioux […]

Biden: Bush ’68 ‘most harmful’ president in modern history

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, 6:09 p.m. – Delaware Senator Joe Biden is not happy with President George W. Bush. “This president has done more to harm […]

Caucusing Un Presidente

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, 5:14 p.m. — Walter and Elsi Carranza have never voted in a caucus before. In the basement of the unheated Mount Olive […]

On the rocky trail, Dodd stops for Rocky Road

LE MARS, Iowa, 12:54 p.m. — Come west of the Mississippi and you can kiss your beloved Phish Food good-bye. The Midwest and the Plains […]

For Dodd, a struggle to matter

LE MARS, Iowa, 12:29 p.m. — “This has to be about something more than celebrity,” Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd told a crowd of 30 as […]