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Former Iowa Congressman Edward Mezvinsky is scheduled to be released from prison this weekend after serving more than five years for fraud.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama made his final pitch to the Johnson County faithful by espousing hope and taking a few embedded jabs at his critics, namely the Clintons. Obama came out swinging at those who question his experience to be the next president. “Experience is important, but there is the wrong kind of experience [...]

President Bill Clinton is making a sweep across the state on behalf of his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Wednesday night he appeared at Solon High School, a mid-sized eastern Iowa town located between the powerhouses of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids.

The liveblog from the event is located below the fold…

CARROLL — While supporting presidential candidate Barack Obama, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle came to the defense of the Clinton campaign on one question asked by the Iowa Independent here in Carroll.

Daschle said he thought former President Clinton’s statement that he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning – a remark with [...]

While stumping for his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, in Iowa City, high-level surrogate Bill faced a tough audience: college students. Unlike the former president’s 2003 visit to Iowa City, when he spoke to more than 13,000 people in Carver Hawkeye Arena, Clinton had trouble filling the Iowa Memorial Union Monday night. When gauging the crowd [...]

Not everyone was happy to see Bill Clinton in Iowa City Monday night. Just as Clinton was about to hit his stride, an unidentified robot heckled the former president, who was playing the surrogate role while stumping for his wife, Hillary Clinton, at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus.

Dressed as a [...]

[Commentary] A month ago, the headline accompanying this commentary would not have been newsworthy.  Everyone agrees, in theory, that college students and other young people should be more involved in politics.  And although the mainstream media tends to underrepresent the level of young voter participation in politics today, everyone agrees that turnout among those 18 [...]

(Commentary) Imagine a stage full of Republican presidential candidates standing underneath the national spotlight and agreeing with one another. Better yet, try imagining all of them agreeing with former President Bill Clinton.

CNN and YouTube helped make this scenario a reality Nov. 28 when the two hooked up and hosted a Republican presidential debate. Just two [...]

A conservative Democratic member of Congress from Arkansas says that had Bill Clinton spoken out forcefully against the Iraq War in 2003, putting a voice to a position the former president claims he held at the time, it could have switched this “Blue Dog’s” vote on the House floor.

“It probably would have had an [...]

Bill Clinton has to walk one of the finest lines ever in American politics in his unprecedented transition from president to spouse of candidate.  While he has campaigned in Iowa with Sen. Hillary Clinton before, he is now hitting the trail on her behalf by himself. 

“I’m not asking anyone to support Hillary because they [...]