Basic Facts on the Iowa Caucuses

Some questions and answers about the Iowa caucuses this Thursday:

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THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that General Petraeus is planning on delivering the commencement address at the University of Iowa in 2010." So reports Michael Goldfarb, late of the McCain campaign, on the magazine's blog.

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All members of Iowa's congressional delegation were re-elected. All move up in all-important seniority rankings and could wind up with better committee assignments if they want them.

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Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro says politicians from Michigan are "possessed" with jealousy over the first-in-the-nation status of Iowa's Caucuses.

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To my dear South Carolinians

My ears have just deceived me: I thought that Mitt Romney just said that his inspiration comes from Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. Maybe this ICD has affected me in ways I did not previously notice. And he has an Elvis song playing at his pep rally/victory party.

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Evolution is the central organizing principle of modern biology. Just ask the National Academy of Sciences -- the group that the United States Congress empowers to uphold science in America.

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Why Hillary (Almost) Cried

So, Hillary Clinton cried or at least teared up. Wow, she is human. I admit that I had doubted that fact for some time. Probably for the last fifteen years or so. OK, I get it… she almost cried. The question is why she cried. And, of course, I have a theory.

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Obama Gently Nudges Hillary From the Driver's Seat

No analysis of the Iowa Caucuses can be complete without a full exposition that which was of most significance about that event. It is a measure of the depth of media bias that they haven't covered it.

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What went wrong for the campaign of fizzled front-runner Hillary Clinton? An unexpected battalion of fresh-faced political activists.

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Virtual pie charts, poor camera work, archaic caucus practices and did I mention Chuck Norris? Observations from last night's Iowa caucus coverage.

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Thanks to the wonderful world of television news, I have learned so much vital stuff about Mike Huckabee's homespun charms, the secret plans of Hillary Clinton's better half to conquer the world and Barack Obama's family ties.

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Barack Obama speaks after winning the Iowa Caucuses Thursday night.

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John Edwards went into the Iowa caucuses last night a fighter and he emerges from them as scrappy as ever. In other words, don't assume, because he lost to Barack Obama, that Edwards is down for the count.

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Mike Huckabee's win was Mitt Romney's loss; Barack Obama's decisive victory was the official end of Hillary Rodham Clinton's inevitable march, and Fred D.

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WIth more than 75 percent of the Iowa precincts reporting, it's Sen. Barack Obama 35 percent, with Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John Edwards tied at 31 percent. CNN is projecting Obama the winner. We expected a tight race and that's exactly what we got, for second place.

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This was all news to Cochrane, reached at home in Oakville, who'd only caught wind that the tune was being used by a candidate from the other side: Hillary Clinton. And that merited mention on an ABC News Political Radar report, too.

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I Heart Huckabee.....Not!!!

Those who know me know I am conservative. They know I am charming and they know I do not like Mike Huckabee because to embrace him would not only be incongruous with my charming conservative persona it would go against my very conscience.

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Most Americans are familiar with how elections work -- secret ballots, an 18-year-old age requirement, all-day voting. But that's not how the Iowa Democratic caucuses on Thursday will work.

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Note to Iowans and New Hampshirites

I am going to take my time to pick apart what I see as reasons not to vote for certain Republicans contending for the party nomination for the Presidency.

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The longtime Republican mayor of this tiny heartland town will stun his neighbors — and send shockwaves that will reach his countrymen in the real Brooklyn — when he breaks ranks with the GOP to vote for Sen. Barack Obama at the Iowa caucuses this Thursday night.

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Democratic Presidential candidate and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich opened the New Year by publicly asking his Iowa supporters to vote for him in the caucuses this Thursday, and suggesting that if he did not make the 15% threshold, their second ballot should be for Senator Bar …

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Over the weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio was traveling alongside Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton here, asking voters to support her candidacy because he believes she is the Democratic candidate best suited to fend off Republicans and win back the White House.

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With polls showing Edwards in a dead heat with Obama and Clinton in Iowa, and Edwards listed as the preferred second choice of supporters of other candidates (an important factor in the Iowa Caucuses) an argument could be made that Edwards is actually leading in Iowa at this poin …

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DES MOINES (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton may have shot herself in the foot trying to get Iowa voters to pledge support to her -- she is encouraging them to caucus on January 14, 11 days too late.

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For college students, winter break is a time for vegging out and relying on mom and dad to do the laundry.

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Just two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be in a dead heat in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.

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