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At the Democratic County Convention in Iowa City on Saturday, John Edwards supporters kept him in the running and kept alive their bargaining power at the district and state conventions.

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

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 [...]

Ignoring the relatively high concentration of Hispanic people in Marshalltown, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a crowd of almost 200 there Friday that “you probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally” in Iowa.

Marshalltown, which is home to a meatpacking plant operated by Swift and Co., was at the epicenter of a nationwide string [...]

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.

To follow our coverage of Sunday’s Harkin Steak Fry as it unfolded, click here.

INDIANOLA – Hillary pulled out the best line of the day.

Obama’s team orchestrated some powerhouse optics.

Edwards did that lawyer-leaping-from-the-John-Grisham-novel-to-face-the-forces-of capitalism’s-excesses-for-those-Americans-bogged-in-the-backwater thing,

The candidates had their moments, some big ones at that.

But the win at U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s Steak Fry, the trophy on [...]

At the start of the year, John Edwards repeatedly slammed Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton on her refusal to apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq. His critiques generated a great deal of media attention but did little to convince voters to abandon their support for her, and subsequent studies [...]

John Edwards first called for Gonzales’ resignation on March 13, 2007. His full statement:
“Better late than never.”