Hat tip to Marriott bellman Mike, who tells me he was startled to see none other than Bill Clinton coming out the door at my favorite corner of downtown Des Moines. Huckabee folks tell me the former President (and fellow former Arkansas Governor) just happened to be in the neighborhood, and wanted to say hi. I’m not sure, but I doubt …
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Romney’s Message to Rollins
He finally responds to Ed Rollins’ spoken desire to knock his teeth out: “Don’t touch the hair.”
His writers are getting better.
Waiting, and Complaining
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 high!) will …
Caucus Chaos: Campaign Spam
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 get.
I’ll start with the emails …
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Two Nights at the Val-Air Ballroom
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 Edwards–to stage rallys, with music, on the last …
Caucus Chaos: Romney’s Day
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.
Edwards’ Three Americas
Firstly, may I say that this will be my inaugural post on any blog. Ever. As a former wire reporter I always simply filed – so this world is a new (and a little scary) one for me. That said, I’m really excited to join my esteemed colleagues and this wonderful world of Swampland!
I went to John Edwards’ first caucus-day speech this …
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In which Mitt Romney’s felonies and mismdemeanors are discussed.
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Accordian Update
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 become …
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<p>I’m <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22356480@N02/">cell phone picture happy</a> again today. Follow along if you like. I warn you: there will be lots of white. And also snow.</p>
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<p>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 <a href="http://twitter.com/anamariecox">Twitter</a> updates and/or subscribing to my Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22356480@N02/">photostream</a> (I am beginning to think of such …</p>
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<p>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 …</p>
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