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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Iowa's Field of Dreamers" in the November 12, 2007 issue, "The Revolutionary" and "Not Semi-Soldiers" both from the November 12, 2007 issue.

Just after midnight on a grand stage in Iowa, Pete Buttigieg went for it. Lagging Sanders and Buttigieg was Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Senator whose ambitious liberal policy proposals rocketed her to the top of the field before voters began to fret that Trump would wield them against her. While his staffers had compiled internal numbers suggesting a win, official results from the Iowa Democratic Party had yet to arrive because of glitches with a smartphone app and other issues that delayed final election results from Iowa's more than 1,700 caucus precincts well into the week. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders is leading the Democratic field and Joe Biden has lost his front-runner status in a national poll taken after the Iowa caucuses. Quinnipiac analyst Tim Malloy said Biden's slide in the poll appears to be correlated with a similar slide in a poll question on electability. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders is leading the Democratic field in a national poll taken after the Iowa caucuses. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren came in fourth in the February poll with 14%, followed by former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 10% and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar at 4%. Quinnipiac analyst Tim Malloy said Biden's slide in the poll appears to be correlated with a similar slide in a poll question on electability. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- As the Iowa caucuses loom, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been plowing cash into an eleventh-hour ad campaign on Facebook Inc. Between Jan. 26 and Feb. 1, the most recent period for which Facebook data is available, the Sanders campaign has accounted for 38% of all spending on Facebook from candidates competing in Iowa. Bloomberg's self-funded campaign has spent $55 million on Facebook and Google advertisements during his self-funded presidential run, according to the companies' ad portals. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden is holding his lead in national polling just days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is keeping the gap narrow. Biden takes the top spot in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll with 26% support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, up slightly from 25% in a Jan. 13 survey. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Des Moines just four days before the Democrats gather for their first presidential nominating contest in Iowa, his campaign announced Monday. Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two nominating contests on Feb. 3 and Feb. 11, both have populations that are more than 90% white -- with a combined 10 electoral votes -- and don't help Democrats win a general election, Bloomberg said in a release accompanying the opinion piece. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden continues to lead a tightening field for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a new national poll by Quinnipiac University. Six Democrats -- Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer -- have qualified for the next debate, on Tuesday in Iowa. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is working to breathe new life into his campaign in Iowa, a state where he's struggled to keep up with his competitor's organizations and popularity despite leading the crowded 2020 field of Democrats in most national polls. But local ties could pull him to Biden, whom Beymer said he's considering only because Biden was able to attract his close friend, Denison native Robert Lyons, to be a field organizer. [Extracted from the article]