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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 [...]

Former North Carolina senator John Edwards has probably mentioned the name “James Lowe” hundreds of times in speeches across the country. Edwards has practically dedicated his presidential campaign to Lowe, repeatedly telling his story as a glaring example of health care problems. 

Lowe was born with a cleft palate and had a simple operation at age [...]

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 [...]

Jacob Nieuwsma is a Linn County co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign and a co-chairman of the Linn-Mar Teenage Republicans at Linn-Mar High School.  He was at Giuliani’s town hall meeting in Dows Theater at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

After winter break, Linn-Mar High School students return to classes on Jan. 3, so Nieuwsma [...]

After being introduced by former Cedar Rapids mayor Paul Pate, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke and took questions at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday night. 

Pate is the state chair for Giuliani’s campaign in Iowa.

While answering questions from the audience, Giuliani gave an interpretation of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]