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In interviews with Iowa Independent this week, several delegates discussed the tough choices they may have to make at Saturday’s county convention.

Most of the time, when a candidate is introduced before a stump speech, the introduction is a chance to hear from someone respected who has been brought in by the campaign to make an appeal.

Sometimes the warm-up speech is short and sweet, Hillary Clinton often had a local organizer read a few words, but sometimes [...]

When Illinois Sen. Barack Obama asked his audience in Vinton who was still undecided, Stephanie Roepke raised her hand. 

But after his speech, she said she had made up her mind and will caucus for Obama on Jan. 3, 2008.

Before the event, she was leaning toward caucusing for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and had made [...]

Sen. Barack Obama gave a 30-minute speech in Vinton, Iowa, on Thursday before a crowd of about 300. During the speech he said that some had questioned his experience.  Without naming them, he called out his opponents in the presidential race on the subject of experience and Washington beltway “seasoning”:
“You can have the right kind [...]

Xavier Koch hasn’t officially entered his name into consideration for any elected position yet, but he already has his eye on the nation’s highest office.  The ambitious young man is ten years old and wants to be president of the United States.

With his mother, Karen Koch, he traveled a half-hour to see Illinois Sen. Barack [...]

Earlier today, as reported by the Iowa Independent, Barack Obama criticized John Edwards regarding so-called “527″ groups and their soft-money influence on the campaign.

From Obama earlier today:
“John, yesterday, said he didn’t believe in 527s. Those are these independent groups that raise money without disclosure … We found out today that there’s an outside group that’s [...]

After his speech on community service Wednesday Barack Obama took some questions from the predominately collegiate crowd at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

In this video Cornell student and birddogger Abigail Pedersen talks about the issues that concern her and shares her opinion about Barack Obama’s response to her question on HIV/AIDS.

Watch Obama’s response in [...]

In his speech entitled, “A Call to Serve,” Illinois Senator Barack Obama recounted his experience as a community organizer and he asked those in attendance at the Cornell College campus in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, to start serving their communities. 

He said when he began his own service in Chicago he found, “a community that embraced [...]

College students for Obama, right?  And health care workers for Hillary?  Not in the Taylor family. 

Christine Taylor and her mom, Pauline, agree on their political party, but they prefer different candidates for president.  Christine likes Hillary for her emphasis on health care, especially for children.  But her mom will be caucusing for Obama.

Pauline Taylor has [...]