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There were echoes in his Iowa victory speech Thursday night that may come from the influence on Barack Obama of the man who worked with JFK...

His campaign chairman wanted to knock out Mitt Romney's teeth, but Mike Huckabee decided to turn the other cheek. Internal struggles are...

In today's world, very little can be called "unseemly," but the candidates' reaction to the death of Benazir Bhutto might ...

If you look carefully at the Hawkeye State, you can find polls showing John Edwards is in the lead (b) Barack Obama is ahead (c) Hillary Cli...

After yesterday's right-left jabs from the Washington Post , the Republican Great White Hope is bashed today by the New York Times wit...

As the polls dwindle down, Hillary Clinton's supporters are performing what they delicately call "the political equivalent of a pro...

Is it sexist to say Hillary Clinton is getting shrill? If you think piercing screams only come from women, remember Howard Dean in 2004. But...

The names on the ballots are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but, in Iowa and New Hampshire, a perfect storm of celebrity is brewing with t...

As in Iowa , there are small signs of momentum for Barack Obama in New Hampshire. In a new CNN poll today, he has narrowed the gap behind H...

If you believe the polls, voters are changing their tune in the first bellwether state for '08, putting Barack Obama ahead of Hillary ...

On Meet the Press yesterday, Barack Obama seemed tentative, defensive and, of all things, wishy-washy. No one could have guessed that the ni...

Weeks before primary voting in The Election That Looked Like It Would Never Come, front runners in both parties are losing some of their lus...

In Iowa this week, Michelle Obama gave voters a new reason to consider her husband for President. “First ladies were once more or less aver...

Two months ago, the former Arkansas Governor, suffering from media neglect, was musing about “accompanying Paris Hilton to jail” to get som...

Mitt Romney won the most votes in Ames today, but he may have come in second in popularity behind Harry Potter carved in butter, who drew ...

Outbidding the patriot Nathan Hale by a factor of five, Governor Romney told Iowa voters that he regrets having only five sons to give to h...

The ’08 campaign pace in Iowa is as intense as it was a month before Democrats chose John Kerry in 2004 with a new poll showing Hillary Cli...

Half a century ago, in “The Music Man,” there was a song about Iowa being contrary: “And we're so by God stubborn/We can stand touchin...