Iowa

The IOWA campaign caucus millennial experience (aka me as a Caucus Fellow) was profoundly summed up on the long snowy drive from Davenport to my home in Chicago. I love XM Radio—what is better than three hours of 70’s music when you know the words...

The energy is building with the Iowa Caucus only three days away! Today Hillary will be joined by Bill and Chelsea to say thank you to the scores of volunteers canvassing across the State. It will be positively electric. Going door to door, talking to citizens...

I am a bit lonely on the road in Iowa—-it seems like there are so many miles between here and home. As I was lost (again) today, driving to a remote part of Davenport, I laughed when I passed a Highway 280 sign…Des Moines to the...

When I first told an old friend of mine and former Bill Clinton staffer that I was coming to Iowa to work for Hillary he said, “It’s not glamorous.” This could be the understatement of the year. In fact, I have found sleeping in my...

I gave up on New Year’s resolutions many years ago. After enough failed attempts, my realistic “thinking self” came to terms with the fact that giving up closet smoking and eating Swedish Fish was not likely to last past mid-January. In this new year, I have...