Category: General

Bill Hartung notes that while Mike Huckabee calls John Bolton an informal foreign policy adviser — when contacted, Bolton said that the two had never met.

This is interesting news. I have worked through the campaigns today — and while I don’t have all the detail on which campaigns did what exact back deals, I know that the Hillary Clinton campaign approached every single one of the others.

Some odds and ends on last night’s caucuses and the state of the presidential race: — We will miss Chris Dodd and Joe Biden. In a strong field of Democratic nominees, this simply wasn’t the year for the white, Northeastern liberal.

From Michael Crowley’s “Air Spin One“: he preternaturally jolly McAuliffe is a good man to have spinning for you in a pinch. But his good cheer dimmed when I asked him about Bill Richardson, who appears to have made an 11th-hour deal to throw his supporters to Obama.

Eric Kleefield makes a compelling case that John Edwards rather than Barack Obama was the real winner of 2nd choice movement last night in Iowa.

A couple of interesting items have come over the email to me yesterday and last night — that are just tidbits worth sharing. One triple-confirmed rumor was that Obama chief strategist David Axelrod was shredding Mark Penn to bits in comments in from of political correspondents Roger Simon and Mara Liaison.

Chris Dodd sent a gracious note tonight saying he is out of the race — but his advocacy for the good things in politics and policy will continue. I salute and thank him.

I went to my final caucus training session last night, and in just a few hours will be heading down to my precinct’s caucus site for the start of the caucuses.

photo credit: Washington Post.

I went out to see Chris Dodd at his final campaign rally for the Iowa Caucuses this morning.