◼ Christmas cease-fire over; final Iowa ad war begins
Reporting from Des Moines— The holiday hiatus, such as it was, has ended, and 2012 campaign advertising, post-Christmas edition, is taking flight in Iowa.◼ The GOP field: The week ahead
A week and a day before the nation's leadoff caucuses, the airwaves of the Hawkeye State are once again clotted with a slew of ads, positive and negative, from the Republican presidential candidates and their supporters.... Absent from the Iowa ad blitz, at least for now: Michele Bachmann (and Jon Huntsman, who isn't openly campaigning for the Jan. 3 caucuses).
