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

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 [...]

Clinton precinct captain Lars Lavender of Parnell, Iowa asked former first lady Hillary Clinton about her electability. 

Lavender has family living around the country who have been asking him about her electability and strength in a general election, so he spoke to her recently about the issue.

Lavender talked to Clinton at an event in Amana [...]

New York Senator Hillary Clinton was joined by her mother and daughter last night at an event  in Williamsburg, Iowa which was marred only by the exodus.  A dangerous icy mist produced slippery roads and frosted windshields as candidate, press, and local traffic drove to their next stops. 
Sen. Clinton and family were headed east [...]

New York Senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton displayed her microphone skills earlier this week at a campaign event in the gymnasium of Tilford Middle School in Vinton, Ia.

The event began with a plea for caucus votes from former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack, wife of former Iowa governor and one-time presidential candidate Tom [...]

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 [...]

Rudy Giuliani spoke before a mostly collegiate crowd of about 500 at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City on Wednesday.

One of those students, Jimmy Centers, introduced the man he says will be the next president.

Centers is the chairman of Students for Giuliani on the University of Iowa campus.  He said that Rudy Giuliani is [...]

College students for Obama, right?  And health care workers for Hillary?  Not in the Taylor family. 

Christine Taylor and her mom, Pauline, agree on their political party, but they prefer different candidates for president.  Christine likes Hillary for her emphasis on health care, especially for children.  But her mom will be caucusing for Obama.

Pauline Taylor has [...]