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After a short concert on the campus of Grinnell College, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne introduced former senator John Edwards who spoke and took questions from the crowd of mostly college students and community members.

Raitt and Browne played four songs before bringing out the smiling presidential candidate.

Videos and music from the event are available below [...]

Imagine believing in your husband so much that you not only encourage him to run for president, but spend every weekend — after a full work-week — flying to Iowa to campaign on his behalf. Welcome to the life of Dr. Jill Biden.
“It’s a little challenging in that I’m always changing hats,” she said. “I’m [...]

John Edwards ended his campaign day in Dubuque on Sunday, Nov. 11 at a fundraiser for 1st District Representative Bruce Braley.

Earlier in the day the 2004 vice-presidential candidate released his “Plan to Build One America,” which outlined his comprehensive policy in 80 pages.  Download a copy at his website.

He didn’t have to do much convincing [...]

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd has received a boost to his presidential campaign from a prominent member of the global health community. Robert Sargent (Bobby) Shriver III, co-founder and chairman of Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA), made his endorsement public this week.
“I have been truly impressed with Chris Dodd’s leadership on global health issues,” said Shriver. [...]

In the past 15 years, the three friends estimate they’ve come together over dining room and restaurant tables more than 1,000 times. They’ve shared joy and hardships that have included five marriages, two divorces, eight family deaths, six pregnancies, a stillbirth, four live births, a bankruptcy, an early miscarriage and an attempted suicide. Not one [...]

It was one of those events unique to Iowa’s retail politics. Two men, each hoping to be the next person to lay claim to the nation’s highest office, stood behind wooden lecterns with campaign signs taped to the front. Campaign signs were also attached to the front of the stage. Behind, a banner proclaiming the [...]

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama outlined his plan for utilizing the National Guard responsibly, his comments coming on a visit to one of the poorest sections of Waterloo Thursday.
Introduced by a local Army reservist and speaking to an audience of roughly 300 people at the Boys and Girls Club, the Democratic presidential hopeful centered his remarks [...]

The presidential campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is launching a new television ad today in Iowa and New Hampshire that details the candidate’s record on the issue of health care.

The 30-second spot, entitled “Stand By Us,” describes Clinton’s efforts to pass universal health care in the 1990s and her work in relation [...]

The dark blue signs on the hotel wall read “Fred Thompson.” The stickers peppered on suit jackets and light sweaters and the marquee outside read the same. The introduction by the local county chairman was for Fred Thompson. Despite all of this, however, today’s political show in Dubuque was owned by children — especially the [...]

Neither the folks who advocate abstinence-only education nor those who support comprehensive sex education were pleased when a re-authorization of abstinence-only funding through Title V was not a part of the compromise Children’s Health Insurance Program bill. It seems Congress could only respond by sticking to the status quo.
As Wendy Norris of Colorado Confidential reports, [...]