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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.

Media observers Matt Palevsky and Bess Kalb witnessed the caucus at Brody High School in Des Moines and caught an example of what they termed “mob mentality” on the part of the front-runners’ supporters.

Writing at “Off the Bus” on the huffingtonpost.com, they have an article and video footage from the event, including the voice vote [...]

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden pleased many fans at an event on the University of Iowa campus on Tuesday evening, but perhaps none more so than Alex Denison, a high school student from Burlington, Iowa. He drove with his mother (an Obama supporter) over 70 miles to see his political hero.

Denison was being crowned homecoming king [...]

Nearly 200 people crowded into a meeting room at the Iowa City Public Library on Monday afternoon to hear Sen. Joe Biden talk about avoiding war with Iran. He quoted from declassified sections of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released Monday that said, “Tehran halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.” Although the NIE [...]

State Senator Joe Seng of Davenport believes in Joe Biden.  Seng was the first senator from Iowa to endorse Senator Biden’s presidential bid.  He says Biden, “plans on winning” despite low fundraising totals.

In this 2 minute video, both Seng and Biden talk about the lack of money in Biden’s campaign coffers. 

Seng says it will [...]

Although Sen. Joe Biden gave little respect to Bill Richardson during the AARP Divided We Fail Presidential Candidate Forum in Davenport on Sept. 20, Richardson still gave himself a good review on his debate performance.

Biden likened Richardson’s experience as New Mexico governor to playing football in “high school.”

In this video, Richardson responds to some of [...]

Not all of the people at the Harkin Steak Fry were on stage with Senator Tom and Ruth Harkin.  There were about 12,000 others wandering around eating steak (or chicken), waving signs, lots of waving signs, and cheering for candidates.

In these videos you’ll witness the sign wars, meet the people who drove across the state [...]

Six democratic candidates spoke at the Harkin Steak Fry fundraiser this year in Indianola.  Each candidate was introduced by Senator Tom Harkin. 

Click here to see video reactions from the Iowa audience.

In reverse order, excerpts from the candidates’ speeches are below the fold in this post.

A new Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday shows the top-three Democratic contenders are in a close race in Iowa, with a surprising 27 percent of voters declaring themselves “undecided” nearly seven months before the nation’s first presidential caucus.  On the Republican side, Arizona Sen. John McCain seems to be tanking, with just 6 percent of Republican [...]

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden says the hours of the George W. Bush presidency widely viewed as the Texan’s most commanding actually were jammed with missed opportunities.
As Bush rallied the nation after 9/11, the president prepared Americans to take an Army to war. But he never asked for sacrifice from the American people, said Biden. Bush [...]