DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
As the vital hour approaches, the clamour of candidates hoping that Iowa will kick-start their push for the White House has reached new levels of intensity. In Iowa City, or ‘Berkeley on the prairie’ as a local politics professor describes it to me, the final two days before the caucus have witnessed [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
“Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about” (Amy Archer, The Hudsucker Proxy)
Here’s the latest polling for Iowa.
But polling schmolling. Marlene the clinical scientist from the Hillary Clinton rally last night seemed to be for Clinton – she clapped along in all the right places, wore the [...]

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*Makes Homer Simpson drooling noise*
It’s Boxing Day. So? TV, of course.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, fiscal conservatism from Joker Giu-li-a-ni.
By now most people will have seen the ‘YouTube hit’ music video “In Love With Obama”. Well this one’s even better, and it’s called “Obama Girl Vs Giuliani Girl”.
Meanwhile, [...]

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