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With Sunday’s endorsement from Rep. Wayne Ford of Des Moines, Barack Obama takes the lead in endorsements from Iowa legislators with 20 to Hillary Clinton’s 19.

Clinton still leads the Iowa Senate with 10, while Joe Biden has the most House endorsements with 14.

Rumors had abounded that Ford was planning to endorse Clinton immediately after the [...]

Often at December campaign stops in Iowa, presidential candidates accepting questions from the audience are presented with inquiries that have little, if anything, to do with the topic they came to discuss. Such was not the case at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids when Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd came to discuss the Constitution and [...]

Seven Democratic presidential hopefuls converged in Des Moines Tuesday afternoon to take part in the first audio-only debate of the campaign hosted by Iowa Public Radio and broadcast nationally by National Public Radio. While front-running candidates exchanged a few swipes on the three issues discussed, and have had their words broadly publicized since the debate, [...]

Barack Obama picks up two legislators and Hillary Clinton gains one in our latest Democratic legislative endorsement update.  The newest donkeys on the chart:
Sen. Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City and Rep. Deborah Berry of Waterloo are with Obama.

Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell of Ames has endorsed Hillary Clinton.

The latest endorsements pull Obama to within one legislator of [...]

Bill Richardson scores his first legislative endorsement, as State Rep. Marcella Frevert of Palo Alto County looks over the resume and hires the governor.  The endorsement is part of a recent flurry of activity on the Democratic side:
Joe Biden has the backing of Rep. Mary Gaskill of Ottumwa, and just this morning added Des Moines [...]

The campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is announcing endorsements from two eastern Iowa lawmakers today.
Rep. Todd Taylor, House District 34, and Sen. Rob Hogg, Senate District 19, were both rumored to be leaning Clinton after each was given the opportunity to announce the presidential candidate during recent campaign stops in Cedar Rapids.
The [...]

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden has popped up another rung in race for Iowa legislative endorsements with today’s announcement that Iowa Rep. Mary Gaskill of Ottumwa has thrown support behind his presidential campaign. The endorsement brings Biden’s total to 13, two behind the campaign for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, which has 15.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham [...]

While Iowa Democrats gear up after yesterday’s long-awaited announcement that Jan. 3 is Caucus Night, the calender-violating states are facing a couple problems.
Ballot Access News reports that Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary is under legal challenge from, of all people, journalists.  Michigan does not have party registration.  Each party gets list of people who voted in [...]

In a game of “Michigan chairs,” New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the only front-running Democratic candidate who will be on that state’s primary ballot. Her chief opponents — Sen. Barrack Obama of Illinois and North Carolinian John Edwards — have abided by both the letter and the spirit of a pledge not [...]

Currently, the only Democratic presidential candidates who will be appearing on the Michigan primary ballot are New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. By the end of business hours, however, that could all change.
The Detriot Free Press has reported that Clinton staff [...]