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Stepping into a polling booth and pulling a lever or pushing a button is too easy for Iowans.
There is no Spanish word for "caucus" and that is just one of Andres Ramirez's problems. The 29-year-old outreach director is responsible for selling the Nevada Democratic presidential caucus to the state's large and underrepresented Hispanic population.
A second congresswoman said Thursday she is quitting the Congressional Hispanic Caucus over opposition to its male leadership.
Campaign finance reform aside, the 2008 Presidential Election is going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 billion dollars; that comes to roughly ten dollars for every man, woman, and child in the United States.
A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa's law banning gay marriage. The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage licenses to six gay couples.
On Friday evening at Huckabee's small headquarters in downtown Des Moines, I interviewed his Iowa campaign manager Eric Woolson, who was Bush's Iowa press spokesman in 1999.
The first 2008 presidential votes may be moving into 2007 after all, making a race that has started earlier than ever even more intense.
New political campaign activists in Vegas prepare for their first primary caucus experience with - house parties, community-buildiing - the foundation. Obama's interviewed, plus some guests.
Huckabee: Eating His Soup Quietly by Chris Cilliza Washington Post Blog
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — It came as little surprise that when Senate Republicans blocked debate Monday on a resolution that would have opposed President Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, erstwhile Democrat, sided with them.
For all of the dire warnings and pre-election commotion about the impact of a Democratic majority in Congress, the fact is that - now that it is upon us - it can do little or nothing but harass the administration.
Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying that data retention by Internet service providers is an "issue that must be addressed." Child pornography investigations have been "hampered" because data may be routinely deleted, Gonzales warned.
Russ Feingold began his career in politics with a simple idea: that the common sense of the people should dictate what our elected officials do. He has continued to focus on this principle throughout his years of public service.
Code of Honor
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