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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was greeted like a rock star when she entered Hy-Vee Hall Saturday afternoon, carrying the message that the presidential contest in Iowa is far from over.

Lines to get into the rally stretched nearly three blocks. The fire marshal closed the entrance after 10,000 people were inside. An unknown number of supporters had to be turned away.

Those who did get inside were told that no matter what the polls say, Republicans have to keep the faith.

“I’m too old to be vice president,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill.

Grassley is 74; Republican presidential candidate John McCain is 71.

“But I am young enough to be reelected to the Senate,” said Grassley, hinting at a run for a sixth Senate term in 2010.

In his first direct email to supporters since leaving the race for the White House, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, has used the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade as a fund-raising catalyst for his political action committee (PAC).
The email, prepared and paid for by the Restore America PAC, a group identified as Brownback’s “leadership fund,” [...]

While he’s not willing to name names, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says his presidential campaign is picking up momentum in Iowa and that he anticipates significant endorsement announcements will be made late this week.
“We’ve had a big weekend — in fact, quite a big week — beginning with the new poll numbers that came [...]

(Commentary) Even the most emerald of green press secretaries knows this to be true: Tell the candidate to answer the question he wants, not the one she gets.

Rudy Giuliani is taking this basic operating principle of American political debates to another level.

Hizzoner is debating the candidate he wants, not those who are on the stage [...]

The presidential campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is launching a new television ad today in Iowa and New Hampshire that details the candidate’s record on the issue of health care.

The 30-second spot, entitled “Stand By Us,” describes Clinton’s efforts to pass universal health care in the 1990s and her work in relation [...]

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee picked up his first three Iowa legislative endorsements yesterday.  But Mitt Romney, who leads in most polls of Iowa Republicans, also has a commanding lead in legislative endorsements.

Sixteen of the state’s 63 Republican legislators, including House Minority Leader Christopher Rants, are backing Romney.  That’s double the number of his nearest [...]

The empty podiums spoke the loudest.

The Republican Junior Varsity All-American presidential forum tonight on PBS featured by far the most intriguing ideas and exchanges of any of the GOP or Democratic debate sessions to this point as the horserace element didn’t dominate the 90 minutes.

Who is the clear winner? Hard to say. Probably former Arkansas [...]

On the heels of a canceled special appearance at Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will meet with supporters of Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback this Friday in West Des Moines.
King, a noted anti-abortion activist, has been scheduled to speak at several venues during a tour of [...]

Like death itself, suicide is a nonpartisan issue, but Sen. Tom Coburn’s, R-Okla., procedural hold on a bill that would help prevent suicide among veterans has thrown a partisan cog into the congressional machine. The Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention bill (S. 479), introduced in the House by Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-3rd District, sailed through [...]