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A top aide to Hillary Clinton says if revelations about John Edwards’ extramarital affair had come out before the Iowa caucuses, Clinton would be the presumptive nominee today.
That’s impossible to definitively answer, of course. But a caucus night survey indicates that most Edwards caucus goers had a second choice other than Clinton, and his absence [...]

Party unity is easier said than done, according to a report this morning in Politico.

When I think about Independence Day (the actual day celebrating the birth of our nation and not the movie, which I had managed to successfully repress until NOW), several American staples come to mind. These include the clich

Word that the co-chairs of University of Iowa Students for Hillary Clinton are encouraging Clinton supporters to back Sen. John McCain in the fall presidential election has caused quite a stir, and nowhere more so than in the ranks of the group College and Young Democrats of Iowa.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tonight showcased superior optics in his St. Paul, Minn., appearance, a raucus rally that made John McCain’s remarks earlier seem like an after-dinner at a local party fund-raiser. And McCain had one of his better nights.

Obama, now with the math on his side after more superdelegate announcements and calls in [...]

In what was his most powerful speech of the 2008 election cycle, both stylistically and substantively, John McCain tonight reached out to female voters and sought to portray Barack Obama as an elitist more trusting of bureaucrats and his own ideas than the common people the Illinois Democrat has at times struggled to capture in [...]

As the Democratic nomination fight moves toward a conclusion, Iowa’s two Toms are both found in the footnotes:

Hillary Clinton let her inner Richard III out for a South Dakota spin. And the camera was rolling.

Of course her now-famous reference to the assassination of Robert Kennedy as a reason to soldier on in her doomed cause is hardly the opening soliloquy of Shakespeare’s Duke Of Gloucester – who announces his intentions to disappear [...]

Despite President Bush’s threat to veto a war funding bill with congressional add-ons, 25 Senate Republicans broke ranks and voted in favor of passing the bill, which added $97 billion worth of spending on top of the $165 billion earmarked for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through next spring.

Although the 75-22 vote surpassed Bush’s [...]

In his first interview with a Florida reporter since signing the early state pledge last August, Barrack Obama said he would be open to seating a Florida delegation based on the Jan. 31 primary results at 50 percent strength.

Obama said he had no choice politically but to go along with Iowa and three other early [...]