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In Highlight Reel Part 1: Comparing Candidate Intros, we looked at some of the people who introduce the candidates.

In Highlight Reel Part 2: Comparing Candidate Endorsements, you can find more than a dozen candidate endorsements.

In this installment of the Highlight Reel, we’ll hear from the candidates talking about, well, other candidates. Sometimes candidates question each [...]

In the first installment of Iowa Independent’s video series Highlight Reel Part 1, we covered candidate introductions.

In this installment, we continue with supporters and the people surrounding the candidates. But these videos will be more like full-blown testimony and praise for the candidates.

These videos are interviews with the people who have decided on their candidates [...]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has taken some criticism for planting questions at her events recently. One question that definitely wasn’t planted was asked on Monday night in Coralville at an event held in the Antique Car Museum of Iowa.

The questioner, David Dickey, said that although he liked Clinton and would vote for her in [...]

Political junkies, caucus veterans, eager voters, and anyone interested in learning about the rich history of Iowa’s political past should visit the new exhibit at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines.  “Caucus Iowa” will be open until the next president takes office in January 2009.

Drawing from sources around the state, the exhibit features a [...]

It’s almost “Vertical Day” for Mike Huckabee’s campaign.  “Vertical,” or “V” Day, will be a 24-hour online conversation hosted by Mike Huckabee at his website starting Monday morning.

I’m not a political scientist, but I don’t know why they didn’t think of this sooner.  I would think that verticality–we’re talking positive, upward motion–is the best kind [...]

Four Democratic candidates spoke and took questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Lance Armstrong, video questions from the web, and cancer survivors across the country in Cedar Rapids today.  The event was billed as making the candidates “Answer to cancer.”

Cancer survivors were in attendance, and the audience in general was enthusiastically supportive of each promise of [...]