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Voters concerned about federal agriculture policies will gravitate toward Barack Obama, said Nebraska senator Ben Nelson at the Iowa State Fair Thursday.

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

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, officially neutral in the Democratic presidential race, this morning said superdelegates at his party’s convention should be stripped of their potential kingmaking status.

He plans to be involved in an effort to do that.

“I’m very uncomfortable with this whole idea of superdelegates,” Harkin said on a conference call. “The reason it [...]

Almost 50 people gathered at the University of Iowa on Friday to discuss the two things you’re not supposed to talk about in polite company: religion and politics.

Political science professor Cary Covington’s presentation on “God Talk on the Campaign Trail” outlined how he sees the pendulum of religious favor swinging back to Democratic presidential candidates, [...]

Most of the time, when a candidate is introduced before a stump speech, the introduction is a chance to hear from someone respected who has been brought in by the campaign to make an appeal.

Sometimes the warm-up speech is short and sweet, Hillary Clinton often had a local organizer read a few words, but sometimes [...]

When Illinois Sen. Barack Obama asked his audience in Vinton who was still undecided, Stephanie Roepke raised her hand. 

But after his speech, she said she had made up her mind and will caucus for Obama on Jan. 3, 2008.

Before the event, she was leaning toward caucusing for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and had made [...]

Sen. Barack Obama gave a 30-minute speech in Vinton, Iowa, on Thursday before a crowd of about 300. During the speech he said that some had questioned his experience.  Without naming them, he called out his opponents in the presidential race on the subject of experience and Washington beltway “seasoning”:
“You can have the right kind [...]

Xavier Koch hasn’t officially entered his name into consideration for any elected position yet, but he already has his eye on the nation’s highest office.  The ambitious young man is ten years old and wants to be president of the United States.

With his mother, Karen Koch, he traveled a half-hour to see Illinois Sen. Barack [...]

Earlier today, as reported by the Iowa Independent, Barack Obama criticized John Edwards regarding so-called “527″ groups and their soft-money influence on the campaign.

From Obama earlier today:
“John, yesterday, said he didn’t believe in 527s. Those are these independent groups that raise money without disclosure … We found out today that there’s an outside group that’s [...]