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  • The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)

    The Democrats have their final pre-caucus debate, and it's just as dull as Wednesday's Republican dud. When Mike Huckabee tells Elizabeth Edwards a debate is boring, it's boring.
    By Walter Shapiro December 14, 2007

  • The GOP's field of dreams

    Fred Thompson flickers to life. Mike Huckabee apologizes for bad-mouthing Mitt Romney's faith. But Wednesday's debate showed it's still anybody's race to win in Iowa.
    By Walter Shapiro December 13, 2007

  • College kid caucus stuffing in Iowa?

    A debate rages in the first voting state about whether college students should exercise their legal rights.
    By Michael Scherer December 12, 2007

  • You, too, can be a campaign reporter!

    Up to speed on Dennis Kucinich's UFO encounters? Know which candidate is Dick Cheney's cousin? Test your '08 savvy here.
    By Michael Scherer November 27, 2007

  • Iowa roundup: A pox on the polls

    Here are some just-typed notions to carry you through the last break in the political action before the caucuses.
    By Walter Shapiro November 24, 2007

  • Obama goes for the capillaries

    Barack Obama delivers a rousing speech in Iowa on Saturday night, all but calling out Hillary Clinton, and then gets weak-kneed on Sunday morning.
    By Walter Shapiro November 12, 2007

  • Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer

    In a Salon interview, the long-shot GOP candidate reveals his convictions about gay marriage, wonders about Mitt Romney's faith, and fires back at Fred Thompson.
    By Michael Scherer November 9, 2007

  • Sizing up the Democratic race so far

    Hillary Clinton may be having her worst week yet, but it's not clear her challengers can take advantage, despite all the media hype.
    By Joan Walsh November 7, 2007

  • The era of Hillary begins

    The next two months will be all about Hillary Clinton. So will the next year if she wins the Democratic nomination. Can she take it? Can you?
    By Michael Scherer November 2, 2007

  • Which Republican candidate is más macho?

    In Iowa, McCain, Thompson and Giuliani vie for the title of Most Manly, in styles that range from low-key to aw-shucks to making glib jokes about torture.
    By Walter Shapiro October 29, 2007

  • My letter to the most important man in American politics

    In which I implore Bill Gardner to save the New Hampshire primary.
    By Walter Shapiro October 15, 2007

  • The presidential primary scam

    Why the game is rigged, and why true democracy is only a secondary factor in the nation's rush to nominate the next president.
    By Michael Scherer October 8, 2007

  • Rudy, Mitt, Fred or John

    Defend America? Check. Defeat Hillary? Check. Cause voters to hold nose and vote? Check. We give you -- the GOP nominee!
    By Walter Shapiro October 5, 2007

  • Mitt Romney's money machine

    The identity of his biggest multimillion-dollar donor, and how Romney could blow away his GOP competitors on campaign spending.
    By Michael Scherer October 1, 2007

  • Killing her softly with his song

    Barack Obama wants to transform politics. But can he defeat Hillary Clinton by casting her as the divider and himself as the uniter?
    By Walter Shapiro September 7, 2007

  • Fred Thompson announces his latest announcement

    The former senator and TV D.A. will make his presidential candidacy official next week, but he's already in reruns.
    By Michael Scherer August 31, 2007

  • Barack Obama's Republican edge

    If he can win the Democratic primary, will his fans from the opposing party help take him all the way to the White House?
    By Michael Scherer August 24, 2007

  • You, too, can be a campaign reporter: Take the test!

    Introducing the ACTAT, the secret test all elite reporters must pass before they can hit the 2008 trail.
    By Michael Scherer August 16, 2007

  • From tears to cheers: Huckabee's surprise second in Iowa

    Mitt Romney's victory in the GOP's Iowa straw poll was a foregone conclusion, but Mike Huckabee's runner-up finish gives his campaign new momentum.
    By Michael Scherer August 13, 2007

  • In Iowa, the Republicans fight for second -- and survival

    Mitt Romney will almost certainly win Saturday's straw poll, but Huckabee, Tancredo and Brownback are locked in a bare-knuckle battle for runner-up.
    By Michael Scherer August 10, 2007

  • Stalking Hillary

    Although Clinton has no lock on the Democratic nomination, Republicans are on an obsessive quest to pick a Hillary slayer for 2008.
    By Michael Scherer August 1, 2007

  • Why the Republicans don't like their candidates

    The GOP front-runner isn't Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney. It's "none of the above."
    By Thomas F. Schaller July 26, 2007

  • Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus

    In the Democratic presidential pack, the leading man is a woman and the leading woman is a man.
    By Michael Scherer July 12, 2007

  • John McCain goes off the rails

    He was once cast as the unbeatable GOP front-runner. But his straight talk on campaign finance and immigration may have set him on a crash course.
    By Michael Scherer and Walter Shapiro July 11, 2007

  • Joe Biden lets it all hang out

    In Iowa, the long-shot candidate stuck with his blunt, freewheeling style, and warned of the dire mess in Iraq facing the next American president.
    By Walter Shapiro July 6, 2007
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