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Vice President Joe Biden will headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner, the Democrats announced today.

A man was arrested at the capitol today after a lobbyist allegedly caught him in the act of stealing a woman’s wallet.  The Des Moines Register reports that the man, Marshall Clemons, 38, of Cedar Rapids, was charged with two counts of fifth-degree theft.
The man was apparently at the capitol as part of a group [...]

 
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.

The first part of a lengthy study comparing coverage of presidential hopefuls in two newspapers — one in Iowa and one in New Hampshire — is complete, and the statistics it unearthed should give female journalists pause.

An automated call going out in Iowa today on behalf of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee is using information that has already been identified as misleading.
The caller, who identifies himself only as “John,” says that Sen. Barack Obama has “voted for at least 94 tax hikes in the past four [...]

COMMENTARY: Palin actually talked down to us, figuring that references to hockey moms and the hackneyed phrase “Joe Six Pack” and her self-application of the word “maverick” would hold more sway than a discussion of the issues. Details do matter — something the last two weeks and the current two wars have shown Americans.

ANALYSIS: With tonight’s vice presidential debate hours away, one rural analyst sees it as a “high-wire act” for GOP candidate Sarah Palin, while another views it as an opportunity for the Alaska governor to escape from what he believes is an unfair media-driven caricature of her.

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now has until the day after her debate with Joe Biden to release the personal financial information that other candidates for the office traditionally have, The Associated Press reports.
Sarah Palin requested and received an extension of the deadline for revealing her personal finances, until the day after her only [...]

Joe Biden got lucky Wednesday. He made the first of his guaranteed half dozen off-message remarks of the campaign, going over the top with praise and saying, in his effusive, Joe Biden way, Hillary Clinton would have been a better vice president than he would. Nobody (except a couple of PUMA bloggers) noticed, because there was so much other good Silly Season Stuff happening.

Calling Iowa his “second political home,” Sen. Joe Biden discussed flood recovery efforts, taxes, health care, and the Republican ticket in front of a crowd of several hundred at the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines Monday.