Des Moines Ok, so here’s how the candidates performed in Cedar Rapids on their last day of campaigning…. Clinton was very strong. She is, without a doubt, the most improved speaker of this election cycle. Her stump speech is a welter of statistics and details–50,000 Iowa children are currently on SCHIP; 50,000 more would have [...]

Team Romney has a busy sked today, and they’re taking us to these events by flying us there. That makes it hard for me to keep up the kind of play-by-play posting I did yesterday. True Swampland junkies can get their AMC fix by following my Twitter updates and/or subscribing to my Flickr photostream (I [...]

At the back of this community center, I ran into a group of Hillary Clinton’s law school classmates (including her own lawyer/friend/confidant David Kendall, to whom the Clintons turned during the 1998 impeachment ordeal). They are here from all corners of the country canvassing and phone banking for her, and have some interesting observations. One [...]

Cedar Rapids Tumulty and I are here, waiting for Hillary to speak, being serenaded by…accordion music. They just played “Roll Out the Barrel” which reminds me of Groundhog Day. But this day before the caucuses is like nothing I’ve ever seen before out here: no one has a clue about what’s going to happen tomorrow. [...]

As I was traveling yesterday with the Clinton campaign into the farthest western–and most conservative–reaches of Iowa, I was struck by how many mothers were there with their daughters. That included the candidate, who was traveling with both her mother and her daughter. Here’s what I wrote about it for TIME.com.