Monday, January 19, 2004

Dean: You Got Our Ticket Punched to New Hampshire! 11:55:36 PM

AP: Rep. Dick Gephardt intends to drop out of the Democratic presidential race 10:54:22 PM

CNN reports Kerry with 37 percent, Edwards with 33 percent, Dean 18 percent at 9:07PM Eastern. 9:07:27 PM

Des Moines Register grid, broken down by county by candidate. At 8:48 Eastern all the numbers are zeroes. 8:50:28 PM

Political Wire: "The Des Moines Register will begin live reporting from the caucuses tonight at 9PM EST on their site." 8:47:06 PM

Dean: "We are not going to stop." 8:42:02 PM

Susan Kaup: "There is a rally tonight to welcome Dean back to NH after his flight lands in Portsmouth from Iowa. It starts at 2AM. Joan Jett is performing some tunes and about 100 press people will be there." 8:17:12 PM

Blog for America: Dean on Larry King Live Tonight 9 pm ET 6:24:08 PM

Command Post: Democratic Candidates -- Up Close 5:45:14 PM

Ryan Lizza: An Elevator Ride with Joe Trippi 5:40:07 PM

Reuters: White House Battle Coming to New Hampshire 5:18:37 PM

Howard Dean: "Hi Bloggers." 5:12:35 PM

AP: Attention about to switch from Iowa to NH. 4:57:33 PM

AP: "The winner in Iowa's kick-off caucuses can count on a boost in the marathon struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination but it's no guarantee of ultimate success." 4:56:08 PM

Steve Gillmor: "Channel Dean is a blueprint for effective advocacy that should (and likely will be) cloned by all the other campaigns." 4:05:07 PM

Michael Allen: "A wake up call for Democrats came this week in the form of a media analysis conducted by The Center for Media and Public Affairs." 4:03:27 PM

NYT: Kucinich tells supporters to go to Edwards if 15% not met. 3:42:13 PM

Scripps-Howard: Record turnout expected in Iowa. 3:40:42 PM

WashingtonPost: 125,000 Democrats hoped for at 1,993 precinct caucuses tonight. 3:26:26 PM

Armstrong:  Here's some loosely-combined notes from the poll-crunching activities at the Quality Inn outside Iowa City that occupied my morning. 2:38:05 PM

Mike Wendland: "I am daily amazed at the Dean campaign's creative and passionate use of the Net." 2:24:32 PM

AP: Four Democrats Locked in Tight Iowa Race. Iowa's caucus campaign was drawing to a close Monday as four Democratic candidates made a push for victory in the suspenseful opening act of the 2004 presidential election. 1:59:27 PM

Dowbrigade: "Dave and the Deanies' first move is an innovative effort to create and distribute a really useful RSS feed -- not one which will just endless repeat the main story line the campaign wants to propagate at any particular time, but one which will include 'everything everyone involved with the campaign needs to know.'" 1:27:35 PM

Kicking Ass: "If you're the Vice President, and you're being sued, and the case gets all the way to the Supreme Court, what do you do? That's right, you go on a hunting trip with the judge." 1:20:21 PM

Barbara Musolf: "Dean is running a hybrid urban and rural campaign." 12:18:28 PM

Daniel Drezner: "I confess to being in absolute awe of this Dean campaign tactic." 12:16:53 PM

Bush strategists: it's time for Cheney to move from undisclosed secure locations to the front lines of the campaign, and a little image repair is in order. 8:52:23 AM

Rob Reiner and Martin Sheen: "[Dean's] campaign has grown above and beyond a discussion of the important issues that concern us. It has become a movement that is allowing the American people to reclaim their political process." 8:44:48 AM

NY Times. "Howard Dean stood in the doorway of his Gulfstream jet, waving for the phalanx of cameras as if he already were president of the United States, his smile so broad it seemed to stretch beyond his face. Glancing back at him from two steps below was his wife of 23 years, Judith Steinberg Dean." 6:29:29 AM

NY Times: With Turnout High, Results May Hinge on First Timers. "In a four-way Iowa caucus race that has squeezed so tight in its final hours, the turnout of a few thousand novices might well spell the difference." 2:03:15 AM

Bush Official: Timing of State of the Union address political, not accidental. 1:52:54 AM

NY Times on the Iowa Caucuses: Carter Put It on the Map, and Iowa Hasn't Budged Since. 1:49:33 AM

NY Times: "The paper has made mistakes" in its coverage of Howard Dean. "The visual used to illustrate an article on Dean's temper (Jan. 3) was more problematic; it was the cover of a recent issue of National Review, with the face of an inflamed Dean above the headline, ''Please Nominate This Man." The caption noted that National Review is a ''conservative journal," but there's no escaping the fact that this wasn't an example of Dean's temper, but of what an avowedly partisan publication thinks of Dean's temper." 1:33:39 AM

Salon:The Latest White House Script for Reporters. Howard Dean is so angry! He has no credibility on foreign policy! He wants to take away your grenade launcher! 1:20:02 AM

AP: Carter Backs Dean; Judy Dean joins her husband on the campaign trail in Iowa. 1:19:23 AM

Salon: The No Jobs President: "On Tuesday night, President Bush will use his State of the Union to claim that tax cuts have restored economic growth, and he may mention the stock market's rise last year. But the transcendent economic issue this election year isn't the growth rate. It isn't the stock market. It also isn't the budget deficit the tax cuts caused. And it isn't even the rate of unemployment. It's the number of people in this country who have decent work -- and the number who don't." 1:13:29 AM