At most of Ron Paul’s events in Iowa this week, little was said about the bad press that has buffeted him outside his intimate town halls. While Paul and his fans were decrying the secrecy of the Federal Reserve, the national media highlighted a past scandal, new criticisms and constant slights from his rivals. “He’s [...]
Today’s most important event won’t happen until 7 p.m. tonight when the Des Moines Register publishes its final Iowa caucus poll. Normally, I wouldn’t place this much importance on a poll, but the Register’s is an exception, traditionally the most nuanced and accurate of all such surveys. In 2008, for example, it predicted an Obama [...]
Winning over Iowa’s fickle voters is hard enough without spoiling their fun. On Friday afternoon, Rick Santorum pulled into a Buffalo Wild Wings sports bar to perform the ritualistic, shared-identity pander of rooting for a local sports team with which the candidate has only a passing familiarity. The problem was that Santorum’s visit to Ames, home to Iowa State University, coincided with the biggest football game of the year.
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As the year winds down, many media organizations are offering their readers a look back at the best of what they’ve produced in 2011 or ranked lists of their most-read stories. The following is technically the latter–in ascending order, these are the headlines that readers clicked the most in 2011–but I think it speaks volumes [...]
Des Moines, Iowa Rick Santorum was a surprise hiding in plain sight. All year, as rivals peaked and plummeted and the glut of televised debates offered a national megaphone, Santorum ran a textbook local race, doggedly criss-crossing Iowa’s remote precincts in a pickup truck, meeting small clusters of voters to enumerate his merits. He was [...]
Des Moines, Iowa For Mitt Romney’s campaign, there’s no question whom this election is really about. “Let’s be real clear, Barack Obama came out to Iowa and he talked about hope and change,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told a crowd of hundreds who gathered Friday morning to hear Romney speak outside a grocery store [...]
Sometimes politics can be very cruel. Michele Bachmann is in the midst of the most embarrassing last week in Iowa that I’ve ever seen a candidate experience. Her campaign co-chair dropped her for Ron Paul two days ago. And Friday’s NBC/Marist poll brings more bad news. She’s dead last, the only candidate in single digits. But [...]
