. @johnpodesta sez Hillary "has has a pretty good couple weeks" to laughs and cheers pic.twitter.com/hkaMOwcJFw — John Deeth (...

State/national readers: A Locals Only ™ Post It's hard to measure, because it's been a long time since we had a "normal...

Spectaculary bad scheduling : The University Lecture Committee is pleased to announce its spring 2016 lineup: The Eighth Annual Cassandr...

Since the 1984 Reagan landslide, Iowa Democrats have only lost the presidential race once. That was in 2004, after a particularly nasty ca...

Iowa Democrats are prepping for their last ever Jefferson-Jackson dinner tomorrow night; the name's being changed next year. The event c...

More proof that yard sign vandalism is rarely if never a sign of a political enemy conspiracy... An Iowa City Police officer says he saw ...

The speaking schedule made the Johnson County Democrat's annual barbecue feel almost like two different events today. The one presiden...

It'll be an afternoon tweetstorm today from the Johnson County Democrats' annual barbecue. Doors open at 3 with Bernie Sanders sched...

In 33 years as a registered voter - my first vote was for William Proxmire - I've cast a few ballots I regret. Mostly by omission, pas...

Careful what you wish for, Sanders people. Bernie clearly had the moment of the night with the "the American people are sick of heari...

Harry Reid, delete your account: . @senatorreid observes that Iowa and NH don't represent the U.S. demographically. "They shoul...

Art Small passed away over the weekend and I don't really want to minimize his death in a catch-all post, but Jeff Charis-Carlson alread...

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will be the guest speaker for the Hillary Clinton campaign at the Johnson County Democrats' annua...

Thursday afternoon the Martin O'Malley staff called up and made me an offer. They were going to be en route from Mt. Pleasant to Des Moi...

Prepping for a big post tomorrow, so here's some notes on the past week for folks who prefer the blog format to the tweet format - yes, ...

It makes sense that the high point of Scott Walker's presidential campaign was getting heckled by cheesehead-wearing protesters at the ...

The minimum wage increase passed by the Johnson County Supervisors may be a hot issue in the county's smaller cities - but in most citie...

I've long thought debates are over-rated. They sway few truly undecided voters, and the audience is mostly the true believers and the pr...