Iowa Caucus

The day has finally come, Iowa. After more than a year of campaigning here, Democratic presidential candidates and the public likely will know tonight who wins the Iowa caucuses. But before we take you to the precincts this evening, the Starting Line team compiled a snapshot of goings-on in and around Des Moines as volunteers…

Three women arrived at a town hall for Pete Buttigieg in Ankeny together Friday evening. They’re going to caucus, they said. But, just three days before they were supposed to arrive at their precincts, they weren’t sure who they were going to caucus for. Like many of other Iowans who can’t decide, they may well…

All eyes are on Iowa. For many, this night has taken months and months (if not years) of planning and preparation, fueling debates about electability, cross-over appeal, experience, fresh faces, and historic candidacies. And in the build up to Monday night’s caucuses, the questions that keep popping up from my family, Iowans, and the media…

All eyes are on Iowa. For many, this night has taken months and months (if not years) of planning and preparation, fueling debates about electability, cross-over appeal, experience, fresh faces, and historic candidacies. And in the build up to Monday night’s caucuses, the questions that keep popping up from my family, Iowans, and the media…

If you’ve followed Pete Buttigieg’s rise in Iowa, you know it’s been one of the more surprising stories in the field. And if you had doubts about his sustainability, it would help to take a closer look at his ground game. Buttigieg hasn’t changed much about the message of his campaign over the past few…

The nation’s progressive movement was on full display in Iowa while Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders and his friends made their final pitch ahead of caucus day. And momentum suggests they might be on the cusp of victory. In one last push for Iowans’ support, Sanders on Saturday stressed the importance of high voter turnout, his…

With the last-minute spiking of the planned Des Moines Register poll on Saturday evening, the Iowa Caucus got what it clearly needed so much more of: drama. Unfortunately for the political world, it also left us in the same position we were yesterday, with no one having a certain sense of who’s going to win.…

With the last-minute spiking of the planned Des Moines Register poll on Saturday evening, the Iowa Caucus got what it clearly needed so much more of: drama. Unfortunately for the political world, it also left us in the same position we were yesterday, with no one having a certain sense of who’s going to win.…

With the last-minute spiking of the planned Des Moines Register poll on Saturday evening, the Iowa Caucus got what it clearly needed so much more of: drama. Unfortunately for the political world, it also left us in the same position we were yesterday, with no one having a certain sense of who’s going to win.…

Just minutes after the Iowa Poll was supposed to come out Saturday night, Joe Biden sat in a leather chair on his campaign bus parked outside the National Cattle Congress Pavilion in Waterloo. He was fidgeting with a black BIC pen — the kind that clicks — when he said he didn’t have enough information…