The Other McCain

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Herman Cain Speaks at Iowa State Fair

DES MOINES, Iowa Here are the photos of Herman Cain’s soap box speech this morning: I counted no fewer than eight TV cameras recording the speech. I’ve got videos, but this McDonald’s where I’m working has crappy bandwidth on the WiFi, so the videos will have to wait for later.

The Butter Cow Is SEXY!

DES MOINES, Iowa Sometime before you die, you must visit the Iowa State Fair. And when you visit the Iowa State Fair, the one exhibit you must see is the world-famous Butter Cow: A sculpture. Of a cow. Made of butter. By the way, I won two blue ribbons for Blogging Excellence:

THE SPIN ROOM IS OPEN!

AMES, Iowa This is where everybody weighs in with their opinion of tonight’s debate. I’ve got photos, video, etc., but please feel free to cram the comments with your own views. The view from here? T-Paw was the big loser. He looked weak, and I’m not the only one here who thought so. UPDATE: Here’s […]

LIVE FROM AMES!

9 p.m. ET: THE DEBATE BEGINS! 9:03 p.m. ET: First question for Bachmann, who shovels out the red meat: “Send a message to Obama . . . one-term president!” 9:05 p.m. ET: Romney hits his talking points, gets a tough follow-up from Brett Baier. 9:08 p.m. ET: Question for Ron Paul. “Restore sound money.” 9:09 […]

Dave Weigel on the Undecided Iowans

There is a lot of genuine ambiguity among Republicans here: Romney leaves Pella and makes his way an hour up the road to Des Moines. He’s the honored guest at a Polk County Republican fundraiser at the home of Nick Van Patten . . . Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and other candidates have already been […]

Romney Shuts Down a Heckler

NEWTON, Iowa As opposed to the deferential treatment the national front-runner gets from the big-deal national media, Mitt Romney received some good old-fashioned commie incivility from this left-wing pest at the Iowa State Fair — and gave it back in surprisingly feisty fashion: We conservatives have spent months dissing Mitt as a spineless RINO, so […]

He Only Steals From the Best

NEWTON, Iowa When I showed up at the state capitol Tuesday for the Tim Pawlenty event, T-Paw had already split the scene and I found myself talking to Joe Garofoli of the San Francisco Chronicle, who explained that Pawlenty had avoided reporters’ questions while making his early exit. Joe and I started talking about the […]

Mitt-Mania In Des Moines

Gwen Ifill and Charlie Cook talk to each other while David Weigel talks to Iowa Republicans at Wednesday’s Polk County GOP fundraiser. NEWTON, Iowa One of the things that gets lost in all the horse-race coverage of a political campaign — who’s up? who’s down? — is the sense of what a campaign actually looks […]

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