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It’s been said that women become involved in politics when they are invited to participate. Please consider this your invitation. Today, at 1 p.m., Iowans from all walks of life will meet in school gyms, churches, community centers and household basements. They will gather to begin a very important process that too often gets lost [...]

Thanks a lot Lynda, you just had to bring up our dirty laundry didn’t you!!! Just when I was trying to decide what my second blog should be about The story on HD33 goes all the way back to the Caucus in January of 2008. My precinct was meeting at McKinley Middle School. I was [...]

More than any other group of people across the United States, Iowans know how long the 2008 presidential contests actually took. Long before official announcements were made, we were shaking hands in 2006 with individuals considering a possible presidential run. Some like Vice President-elect Joe Biden came and stayed. Others like Sen. John Kerry, Sen. [...]

In an email to supporters, Sen. Tom Harkin announced his wife Ruth plans to formally endorse Democratic candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton. In the email, Harkin explains that he and Ruth are no strangers to passionate political involvement and that his wife did not take this decision lightly. “Ruth took many things into account before deciding [...]

More than 1,500 Iowa women caucus goers have agreed to make public their support of former Sen. John Edwards. The list of women, which represents all 99 counties and more than 800 precincts, was made public today during a Town Hall event in Des Moines. The campaign also announced a statewide leadership team of 31 [...]

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s Presidential campaign rolled out a web site change Monday and announced the hiring of Matt Browner-Hamlin as chief blogger. Browner-Hamlin is an experienced blogger who has contributed to The Huffington Post, My Left Nutmeg and The Right’s Field. He plans to travel with Sen. Dodd and offer updates from the campaign [...]

Sen. John Edwards has both scheduled a town hall meeting for next Tuesday and announced the opening of an Iowa campaign site. The trip for the town hall meeting – his 23rd to Iowa since 2005 – comes less than a week after the campaign released its first ad in the state. The event is [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson’s campaign will begin airing a new crop of ads in Iowa and New Hampshire showing Richardson participating in mock interviews. Here’s the ad: According to the email sent out to supporters, the spots make “crucial points to key primary voters that Bill Richardson, a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the experienced [...]

I’ve been invited to join a conference call with Sen. John Edwards to discuss the launch of his campaign’s first ad in Iowa — “We the people.” Here’s a peek at the ad: The call will begin in about five minutes. Before we get started, here’s what we know so far: * On May 2, [...]

You don’t want to miss the interesting post at Century of the Common Iowan about the child custody disputes our soldiers are having to deal with as they serve overseas. It was also picked up by JHoward at Protein Wisdom. Check out desmoinesdem’s viewpoint about moving the Iowa Caucuses on Bleeding Heartland. The folks at [...]