2012-02-10T17:10:19-05:00 urn:uuid:61bb79ef-b391-4641-850f-464317d93844 urn:uuid:5e93e6ae-3140-43b4-be59-24caf41c08bf 2007-11-05T12:19:00-05:00

Bill Clinton won re-election in 1996 by employing a strategy dubbed “triangulation,” essentially running against both Republicans and Democrats.

urn:uuid:7312faee-4f9b-421d-9ecb-08d5edd8277e 2007-10-29T14:21:00-04:00

With a Michigan senator threatening to move his state’s primary to whatever day New Hampshire chooses, and with New Hampshire threatening a pre-Christmas vote, the presidential nominating system faces potential demolition after 2008.

urn:uuid:11f509d1-ca1e-43b6-8dd0-04924565f6a6 2007-10-22T13:03:00-04:00

If Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican presidential nomination, it would be in some ways as revolutionary as Democrats picking Hillary Clinton as the first female nominee of a major American political party.

urn:uuid:44feb852-2fe3-41ce-bf8d-39a0239b02ed 2007-10-16T13:22:00-04:00

When I met with Iowa State journalism students earlier this month one theme kept coming up. In a world awash in information, how do you sort out the real from the fake? How do you get to the truth amidst propaganda and lies that are so prevalent on the Internet and elsewhere?

urn:uuid:cf12f19b-e219-43b5-a247-cc7adbcfec43 2007-10-08T11:43:00-04:00

Spotted on the bucolic campus of Iowa State University: a bumper sticker that says, “I’m for caribou, and I vote.”

urn:uuid:6b11884e-b8bb-4789-a8b7-4fde82f2bf9a 2007-10-01T13:17:00-04:00

s fall arrives in this long march to the White House, six aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign emerge that make it more historic and consequential than any election since at least 1980.