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Early Weather Outlook for Iowa Caucus
Hello everyone interested in the Iowa Caucus! It is early to be thinking about weather forecasts for the evening of February 1st, but I thought I would post this to get you thinking about weather and...
View ArticleBernie Sanders PULLS AHEAD in Iowa RCP average for first time since the...
The lines have officially crossed! One week before the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders has officially taken a .8% lead over Hillary Clinton in the Iowa Caucus RCP average! Talk about echoes of 08. Obama...
View ArticleTrue (heartbreaking) tales from the campaign trail
The New York Times just posted a report from an event Bernie Sanders held this morning in Iowa Falls, Iowa. It wasn’t the usual campaign event for Sanders:Mr. Sanders often gives hour-long stump...
View ArticleDaily Kos Radio's KITM podcast (AUDIO): Kagro in the Morning, Wednesday,...
xEmbedded ContentFind us on iTunes | Find us on Stitcher | RSS | Donate to support the show!David Waldman has dug his way out of the snow and brings us another KITM:David, Greg Dworkin, and Joan...
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Bernie had me at "revolution"
The best way to disrupt the growing oligarchy is massive participation in our democracyThis is the first time in US history that a presidential candidate from a major party is running as a...
View ArticleThe Magical Campaign; Obama & the 2008 Iowa Caucus
“That [Obama’s] was a magical campaign eight years ago.” Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General New York Times, 10/26/15, Clinton's Big Push in Elusive Iowa, by Jonathan Martin and Maggie...
View ArticleShouldn't Debbie Wasserman Schultz sanction more debates between New...
We the people, must tell Debbie Wasserman Schultz to sanction debates before New Hampshire and Super Tuesday.
View ArticleDaily Kos Radio's KITM podcast (AUDIO): Kagro in the Morning, Thursday,...
xEmbedded ContentFind us on iTunes | Find us on Stitcher | RSS | Donate to support the show!Almost to the end of school snow cancellation week, David Waldman gets to talk to adults for two hours...
View ArticleReddit Army Rising: Road Trips for Bernie!
According to Yahoo! NewsA poster on Reddit started making calls for volunteers to come to Iowa last Friday. In the first 3 days they got 160 signups of “road trips” of volunteers heading into rural...
View ArticleMy Closing Argument For Bernie
It is a capitalist’s dream; a booming downtown retail district, unemployment down to just three percent, entrepreneurship on the rise. The mayor of this city works closely with local business leaders,...
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Daily Kos Weather Center: Launch Day! Snow for the Iowa Caucuses?
Welcome to the Daily Kos Weather Center, a group of volunteer amateur (and professional!) forecasters.Weather? Here? On Great Orange? Yep. We hope to bring you a great diary about the weather, climate,...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the new PPP Iowa Dem poll
and on the caucuses in general.Taking into consideration a couple of deeper analyses within the pollClinton supporters 88% firmly committed, Sanders only 74%.Project that out .88 x . 48 = .4225...
View ArticleCould Snow Storm Help Bernie?
So there is going to be a snow storm in Iowa on caucus night. The weather channel isn’t predicting significant snow in Des Moines until after midnight, the same is true of Fort Dodge in the Western...
View ArticleMy view from Iowa
I live in the most liberal county in the state, Johnson County, the home of the University of Iowa. I am a Hillary Supporter, probably a minority in this county, and was in 2008 when this county went...
View ArticlePresident Sanders and a Republican Congress – The Fallacy of Conventional Wisdom
Republicans haven't had to deal with anyone remotely like Bernie Sanders on a national level in a long, long time. Now, from out of virtually nowhere it must seem to them, he might be their opponent in...
View ArticleNew Selzer/Des Moines Register Iowa poll has Trump up 5, Clinton up 3
The long awaited Des Moines Register/ Bloomberg/ Selzer poll of the Feb. 1 Iowa caucus is out. First the Democratic numbers, with the Jan. 10 results in parentheses:Hillary Clinton: 45 (42)Bernie...
View ArticleClinton Training Iowa Captains To Undercut Bernie By Pushing Backers To O’Malley
Interesting article up on Buzzfeed describing how Clinton volunteers are being instructed to give up votes to keep O’Malley supporters from joining with Bernie in the caucus. Hillary Clinton’s campaign...
View ArticleBernie Rocks Iowa - Literally (Rally & Concert Review)
I stayed in Saturday night and searched for a live feed of Bernie speaking, pre-caucus to a University of Iowa audience along with musical guests befitting a college crowd. Normally I’d scour the...
View ArticleThis is NOT my prediction for tomorrow
but thought it worth sharing anyhow. When I had shared my diary on the PPP poll (which you can still read here with a number of people who do not post here, a very prominent political consultant in...
View ArticleThe Original Brooklyn Bad Boy
He won’t be ignored.He is relentless, unrepentant.He is proudly provocative.He’s an applecart upsetter who speaks his mind, damn the torpedos.Sound familiar? It should, he’s well-known now and loved by...
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