Iowa Caucus

From The Room: My Afternoon with Governor Mike Huckabee

January 10, 2008 - After the startling results of last week's Iowa Caucus, coupled with the banal and predictable results of the New Hampshire primary, there was one man everyone wanted to speak to. Unfortunately, he was busy helping a...

From The Room: Scarlett Stumps for Obama

January 9, 2008 - Jan. 3, 2008--Actress Scarlett Johansson turned up in Iowa yesterday to lend her fashionably vague celebrity support to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign. The film star dressed in her best "I'm serious about the issues" ensemble, though her lack of obesity and her skin's radi...

From The Room: What Iowa and New Hampshire Say About Me

January 9, 2008 - "He's inspiring the young people to get interested in politics," I said with what felt like genuine enthusiasm following Obama's overwhelming victory in Iowa. I was thrilled for him, for us, for Oprah. When confronted with a less enthusiastic response, "As inspiring as his speeches are, there's...

From The Room: Iowa: It's Winner-tastic!

January 5, 2008 - The great thing about the Iowa Caucuses is even after they're over, nobody knows exactly what happened. It's best described as musical chairs without the music. And no chairs. On the Democratic side, people don't really vote. They attend, then move off into designated candidate corners, but...

Iowa's over: next stop, the jugular

January 4, 2008 - Post-Iowa, the Obama, Edwards and Clinton campaigns are sharpening their knives against one another, while Republicans are still wondering w...

Huckabee nails Christian vote in Iowa like Romans nailed Christ in Golgotha

January 4, 2008 - Mike Huckabee can thank his fellow evangelicals for his victory in the Iowa caucus. Eighty percent of his votes came from people who think the earth was created in six days. Then again, Mitt Romney cleaned up amongst voters who believe...

What voters in Iowa really wanted to hear from Hillary Clinton

January 4, 2008 - After coming in a disappointing third in last night's Iowa caucus, Hillary Clinton, Democratic frontrunner-no-longer, gave an unusually perky speech to her supporters that hardly touched on her defe...

From The Room: Notes on the Iowa Caucuses

January 4, 2008 - Does anything say "joke presidential candidacy" like Chuck Norris's unnaturally-white toothy grin behind you in your "victory" speech? Listen, when your only big-name supporter is a late-night Bowflex salesman, you're still a loser even when giving a victory speech. The biggest loser last night w...

From The Room: Clinton Aide Accuses Obama of Fathering Two Black Girls

January 4, 2008 - Manchester NH -- Mark Penn, senior political strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign, today urged Barack Obama to "come clean" and admit that he has fathered two African American girls. Penn, speaking to reporters on the Manchester airport tarmac as he was getting his hair re-slimed, defended r...

I remember Iowa: the caucus in pictures

January 3, 2008 - On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of voters braved freezing temperatures to make their voices heard. Reporter-at-large Kevin Bleyer stuck his lens where the sun don't shine—Des Moines—to bring you all the action from the Iowa caucus...

Nutbags for Hillary

January 3, 2008 - Due to the caucus frenzy in Iowa, an intriguing story was buried: Yet another mentally ill man was arrested after an incident at a Hillary Clinton campaign office. On Monday evening, Christoph...

From The Room: It's a Good Day to Be a Republican

January 3, 2008 - Yep, you heard that right. This is the one day of the year that it is better to be a Republican. If you live in Iowa, that is. The Republicans have this caucus thing exactly right. You show up, write the name of the candidate you want on a slip...

News Odds for Thursday, January 3, 2007

January 3, 2008 - Odds that... U.S. prosecutor John Durham, leading the Justice Department's criminal investigation into the destroyed CIA interrogation tapes, rolls his eyes when the CIA and the White House...

From The Room: Iowans Get the Best Swag

January 3, 2008 - In an effort to get out the vote in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's campaign will be offering free babysitters for caucus-going families with young children. With the...

The Iowa caucus: insignificant, yet overly complicated

January 2, 2008 - Everybody knows the Iowa caucus is the first major event of each party's presidential nomination process. Everybody knows the results often determine which candidates remain in the race and which ones will carpool with Dennis Kucinich back to Washington. But nobody really knows exactly how the Iowa...