He finally responds to Ed Rollins’ spoken desire to knock his teeth out: “Don’t touch the hair.” His writers are getting better.

Some people, it seems, just don’t appreciate the vital and utterly appropriate role Iowans play in deciding who will lead the United States of America for the next four years. These sourpusses seem to think that there is something deeply wrong about the fact that the collective wisdom of maybe 150,000 people (if turnout is [...]

In the past, readers have requested a look at the raw data/memos/releases we get from campaigns. There is a lot of it (dozens of emails a day), and today should be especially hectic, but I thought it might worthwhile to post, without comment, what the campaigns are sending out today… At least the ones I [...]

Des Moines The Val-Air ballroom on the west side of town is one of those great old roadhouses–the sort of place you can imagine Buddy Holly, who played his last gig in Iowa, tearing up in the 1950s. And so it was a perfect place for the two populists in the race–Mike Huckabee and John [...]

Romney’s campaigning like Fred today with only a handful of public events. Totally in keeping with pretty much everything we know about the guy, they’re all at corporate headquarters. Again, I will be flickring and twittering throughout the day.