2008 Presidential Election  

In most parts of the U.S. you sit in a large auditorium to see a presidential candidate. In Iowa, home of the first caucuses, you might sit a few feet from them at a picnic.

With the Iowa Republican Party Straw Poll coming up on Saturday in Ames -- and to be broadcast nationwide on C-Span -- you've got to ask yourself: Is this really democracy? Let me start out by saying you have to pay $36 just to vote in the thing.

The thing that it has done for me personally is that it has made me realize that a white guy from the Northeast is not likely to win the Democratic nomination.

Being a resident in New Hampshire around election time can be very exciting. I have lived in New Hampshire all my life and not to many big events happen.

Sunday's Republican debate in Des Moines at Drake University, which was aired on ABC, was not without some fireworks.

Among all the candidates, Hillary Clinton bragged about how she will continue to garner massive contributions from the corporate lobbyists who are responsible for the ethos that created hopelessness among voters across the country.

I must say that Richardson is a lot better on the stump then he is in the debates. He comes off as a real people-person who seems extremely comfortable with the meet-and-greet aspect of the campaign.

In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leading his top rivals.

Jill Biden, the wife of presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced that the entire immediate Biden family will be making Iowa their home away from home in the coming months in preparation for Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, scheduled to take place in January.

With the Democrats in control of both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature, new laws seem to reflect a liberal movement in a state formerly known as a haven of conservatism.