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Iowa has been back in the presidential spotlight the last few days, with Saturday’s congressional district conventions and Barack Obama endorsements by superdelegates Richard Machacek and U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley. The state’s next moment in the spotlight, the June 14 state convention, could be one of the final major battles in the nomination fight between [...]

“The headline out of Iowa is going to be ‘Obama gains one,’” I told my fellow delegates during casual conversations in the hours of down time at Saturday’s 2nd Congressional District Democratic convention.

So when I finally got home, and could access the national political blogs that for some reason the Mount Vernon School District’s wireless [...]

A deal between John Edwards and “another campaign” reported to Iowa Independent Wednesday did not make John Edwards viable in the 4th Congressional District, and as a result Barack Obama gained one national convention delegate at Saturday’s congressional district conventions.

The Iowa Democratic Party reports a national delegate count of Obama 16, Clinton 9, and Edwards [...]

Statewide National Delegate Split: Obama 16, Clinton 9, Edwards 4; Obama Gains 1 Delegate in 4th CDHarkin: Staying Neutral, Don’t Count Rulebreaking States, Abolish Superdelegates
Iowa Independent’s John Deeth is at the 2nd Congressional District Democratic Convention, with live updates throughout the day and night. At 3 p.m. a rules committee member estimated from the podium [...]

Attendance, Tactics Will Shape Results
They say half the game is just showing up, and that’s true for Iowa’s Democratic congressional district conventions. The other half may be tactical politics, as supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama try to deny the other campaign any advantage.
The most important factors in determining how many national delegates Hillary [...]

In March, the presidential campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared less than enthusiastic in its return to Iowa to battle once again for the state’s delegates at county conventions. It was a costly mistake and one, it now seems, the campaign has no desire to repeat.

Although there might not be a big rally planned for tonight or any former presidents walking down Main Street, the Hawkeye State has once again become a hotbed of national Democratic political activity.

Just one week from today, each of Iowa’s 99 counties will host their Democratic county conventions. It’s a development that has sparked the previously successful grassroots organization of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama back into action.
In an email to supporters on Friday, the Obama campaign provided detailed information based on county of residence as well as [...]

National news media are reporting an Iowa national delegate count of Obama 16, Clinton 15 and Edwards 14 as if it’s a set-in-stone statistic. But with the exception of the superdelegates, Iowa is three months away from electing its first national delegate. The supporters of former candidate John Edwards have multiple options that may affect [...]

(Commentary) The conventional thinking in Democratic vice presidential speculation is that the red carpet is down, spread with few wrinkles, for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former commander in chief aspirant himself. But should Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination, Richardson, while surely on the Illinois senator’s short list, is by no means a [...]