Lincoln Chafee made his official debut to the nation on CNN's debate stage Tuesday night and ... it didn't go so hot. He received only about nine minutes in speaking time - far less than the other candidates - and yet didn't even need that much to show how deeply...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright didn’t speak for long in West Des Moines today, but she got her point across: Hillary Clinton is the best person to be President of the United States. Albright attended three organizing events on behalf of Clinton in...
Democrats finally got their chance to showcase their five presidential candidates in front of the country on national TV last night, and one has to wonder after watching - why aren't we doing this every week? In an incredibly clear contrast with the divisive and...
It was finally the big night for Democrats with the their first presidential debate on CNN. Team Starting Line attended three different debate watch parties in the metro to see first-hand how Iowa Democrats felt about the candidates' performances. We hit up the...
Tonight's long-awaited first Democratic debate could serve as a pivotal moment in the fight for the nomination, and no one has more on the line than Martin O'Malley. After agitating for months for more debate opportunities, the first one has finally arrived for the...
Kate Gronstal sat at her parents' house, devastated and crying, when her phone rang. Kate was in no condition to be taking calls, but her mother answered and quickly brought it over. "You need to take this," Connie Gronstal insisted, and handed the phone to her...
If the stresses of dealing with tightening polling numbers, Joe Biden's potential run, the looming Benghazi hearings or the never-ending email server story was starting to get to Hillary Clinton, you wouldn't know it from her demeanor on her trips through Eastern...
In the week that Vice President Joe Biden is rumored to be nearing a final decision on whether to run for President or not, the Iowa campaigns of his potential rivals announced more new key endorsers who have joined their campaigns. Both Hillary Clinton and Martin...
It appears the debate on clean energy policies and climate change is shifting for Republican voters, according to an interesting new survey run by several conservative polling firms. The poll comes in the midst of a 2016 campaign that has seen energy and climate...
Few other presidential candidates' campaign events are as stage-managed as Ted Cruz's. Fancy backdrops, dozens of volunteers in matching t-shirts to welcome you, well-produced introductory videos and free pocket constitutions are present at nearly every Cruz event...
