Barack Obama's Iowa press guy, Josh Earnest, tells me the media bus tailing the Illinois senator's "Change we can believe in" tour of southeast Iowa this week is full - all seats spoken for.
It seems the press is eager to see how Obama reacts to John Edwards's aggressive attacks on Hillary Clinton, and to the New York senator's complaints of "piling on" among her male rivals for the Democratic nomination. (Not to worry though: Guardian America is renting a car. We'll be reporting and blogging from the road.)
Obama's tour begins on Tuesday in Cedar Rapids and ends Saturday night at the Iowa Democratic party Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Des Moines. On the way he'll be meeting with Iowa voters at a series of coffee groups and town-hall events, and giving what's billed as a "major policy speech" on Wednesday morning at the Mississippi Bend area education agency in Bettendorf.
