Presidential Politics: Edwards has early lead in Iowa

Well, well, well.

The Des Moines Register recently released the results of a poll of likely participants in the 2008 Democratic caucuses, and guess what? John Edwards -- not Hillary Clinton -- is the current front-runner in Iowa. Edwards took 30% to Clinton's 26% (John Kerry showed at 12% and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack was just out of the money at 10% -- and the big loser of the day for coming in fourth on his home turf; former VA governor Mark R. Warner and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh were in single-digits). Sen. Clinton's attempt to position herself with Kerry-like inevitability for 2008 may already be showing cracks.

The rest of the story: The Des Moines Register