— 8:00 am: Rev Sharpton Preaches at the Bible Way Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
— 9:30 am: Sen. Edwards will meet with Story County Democratic activists, Ames, IA
—10:15 am: Gov. Howard Dean attends a "Caucus for Change" pancake breakfast at the Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA
—11:00 am: Rep. Kucinich visits an Islamic Center, Waterloo, Iowa
— 11:00 am: Rev. Sharpton Preaches at Union Temple in Washington, D.C
— 11:45 am: Sen. Joe Lieberman discusses his middle class tax plan, TBA, Manchester, N.H.
— 12:00 pm: Rep. Gephardt attends a "Countdown to Victory" event at the Round Barn, Winterset, Iowa
—12:00 pm: Gov. Howard Dean attends service at the Antioch Baptist Church, Waterloo, IA
— 12:15 pm: Sen. Edwards will meet with Marshall County Democratic activists, Marshalltown, IA
— 1:00 pm: Ralph Nader appears at a strategy meeting for choosing an Independent President in 2004, Bedford, N.H
— 1:00 pm: Rep. Kucinich attends a rally at the Waterloo Senior Center, Waterloo, Iowa
— 1:15 pm: General Clark greets canvassers in Nashua, N.H.
— 1:45 pm General Clark greets canvassers in Nashua
— 2:00 pm: Rep. Gephardt attends a "Countdown to Victory" event at the Easter public library, Norwalk, Iowa
— 2:45 pm: Gov. Dean attends a "Caucus for Change" event at the Community Plaza, Oelwein, Iowa
—2:45 pm: Rep. Kucinich attends a rally at the Marshalltown Library, Marshalltown, Iowa
—3:00 pm: Sen. Edwards will rally with Polk County Democratic supporters, West Altoona, IA
—--4:00 pm: General Clark attends a house party hosted by Mike & Stephanie Ballentine, Nashua, N.H.
— 4:00 pm: Rep. Gephardt attends a rally at the Quality Inn, Des Moines, Iowa
— 4:30 pm: Rep. Kucinich attends a diversity celebration at Hotel Kirkwood, Des Moines, Iowa
—5:30 pm: Sen. Kerry attends a pre-debate reception hosted by Fmr State Rep. Willie Glanton, Des Moines, IA
— 5:45 pm: Sen. Kerry attends a pre-debate rally, Des Moines, IA
— 7:00 pm: General Clark hosts a conversation with Candia area residents, Candia, NH
—8:00 pm: Iowa Brown & Black Coalition's Democratic Forum, Des Moines, IA

President Bush is down in the Crawford ranch today.
Gov. Howard Dean, Rep. Richard Gephardt, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. John Edwards and Rep. Dennis Kucinich campaign in Iowa today.
Al Sharpton campaigns in Washington, D.C.
All the candidates except Gen. Wesley Clark participate in the Iowa Brown & Black Coalition's Democratic Forum, live at 8:00 pm ET on MSNBC.

I-(O)-WA-NNA WATCH MY SUNDAY SHOWS:

For those of you in Iowa, here is a list of Sunday shows airing on stations near you.
ALL TIMES LOCAL:
9:00AM FOX NEWS SUNDAY with Chris Wallace (Channel 6, KDSM)
9:30AM FACE THE NATION (Channel 8, KCCI)
10:00AM MEET THE PRESS with Tim Russert (Channel 13, WHO)
10:30AM THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos (Channel 5, WOI)

A reminder to watch The Note on This Week with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday morn. Check your local listings (unless you are in Iowa and can just look up above), for all that's new and newsy in the week ahead. And be sure to join George on the bus with Howard Dean, John Edwards, John Kerry and Dick Gephardt. Bonus: Treasury Secretary John Snow

CORRECTION: Due to incorrect information provided to us, The Note yesterday misspelled the first name of Jon Haber, the campaign's new de-facto chief operating officer. For that, we apologize, and regret the error.

NEWS SUMMARY

In honor of Senator John Edwards (D-Mill) getting the coveted endorsement of the Des Moines Register on the day of the last Iowa debate of the campaign, we offer you this Edwards campaign quiz.

Put these campaign highlights in order from earliest to most recent, recognizing that at least two items on our list NEVER happened — and thus should be left out of the chronology you assemble if you wish to receive full points:

— A Bush adviser calls Senator Edwards "the Breck girl."
—Edwards finishes first or second (depending on your worldview) in the recount of the Shrum Primary.
—Edwards learns that it is pretty much never helpful in national politics to have your name appear in the same newspaper story with the phrase "Little Rock law firm."
—Edwards allows Alexis Bar's shop to assemble a schedule with back-to-back days that don't leave time for a run.
—Edwards takes his media pack shopping and buys foreign-made running shoes.
—The relationship between Edwards and John Wagner begins to make the Lieberman/Lightman pairing look like Gwyneth and Chris.
—Emma Claire asks Jennifer Palmieri, "Why doesn't anyone like you?"
—Page Belting becomes for one shining moment the center of the political universe, and — with not one camera recording the action — Edwards writes an entire chapter of "What It Takes II."
—Nick Baldick curses out Joe Lieberman on the record after Lieberman's appearance on national television.
—Edwards refuses to take Joel Johnson's "lobbyist" contribution.
—The Chattering Class universally concludes that Tim Russert smokes John Edwards.
—The Chattering Class universally concludes that Tim Russert doesn't smoke John Edwards.
—Edwards visits his 72nd Iowa county, on the way to all 99.
—Edwards makes mincemeat of Howard Dean at the Rock the Vote debate.
—A day passes, and no one on the Edwards' campaign describes Harrison as "grumpy."
—Edwards is asked his position on skateboarding by a student in Concord.
—Edwards turns 50, and becomes obsessed with telling people about it.

From the Register's endorsement, which will likely be referenced in some paid media faster than you can say "Iowa Boy" : LINK "The underlying theme of the Democrats is that the government under President Bush is serving the interests of wealth and privilege, not of ordinary Americans. Howard Dean's call to 'take our country back' is the rallying cry."

"Dean has the slogan, but it is Edwards who most eloquently and believably expresses this point of view, with his trial-lawyer skill for distilling arguments into compelling language that moves a jury of ordinary people."

ABC News' Edwards campaign reporter Gloria Riviera reports: Senator Edwards was clocking 75-miles an hour plus down a very dark Highway 80 West in Iowa when he heard the news that he'd snagged the Des Moines Register endorsement. Senior campaign staffer Rob Bernsten called him with the official, official, official word while Edwards tore down the highway in the campaign's ride of choice in the Hawkeye state, a rental white mini-van. The Senator immediately called his wife, Elizabeth, to share the news.

(And how did the Senator celebrate? Cold ice cream "Frostys" from Wendy's drive-thru for himself and the staff riding with him in the white high speed mini-van.)

For the Edwards campaign, it is good to be back in Iowa.

They are out and out thrilled, despite responding to Dean's Harkin nod by saying "endorsements are one item on a long list of issues voters will consider" not 24 hours ago. They say there is no way to quantify immediate expectations as a result of the news. But, that the Register nod kicks off the final week of campaigning in Iowa with a spotlight on Edwards that the campaign — and the die-hard supporters who have started to scratch their heads in anxious puzzlement over low poll numbers — will certainly welcome.

The New York Times ' Adam Nagourney reminds us the race in Iowa is mighty close indeed. LINK

Writes Nagourney, "Given the fluidity of the race, the focus of the campaigns has turned to the rudiments of what it takes to triumph in the arcane caucus system that inaugurates the Democratic nomination process."

"The candidates have splurged on television advertisements and attack mailings and have built huge and ambitious get-out-the-vote operations. Their efforts, apparent this weekend in bustling campaign headquarters filled with people who clearly are not from Iowa, reflect the calculation that the outcome could prove pivotal in determining whom the Democrats nominate in Boston."

And the Washington Post 's Dan Balz has more on the unprecedented Iowa GOTV effort: LINK

"Dean's energized volunteer brigades, streaming into Iowa in unprecedented numbers, are pitted against a tough and motivated legion of industrial unions that have banded together behind the candidacy of Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.). Two other campaigns have put together serious ground operations, according to veteran Democrats. Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.) both hope to spring a surprise in the caucuses and their organizations — particularly Kerry's — have impressed veteran Democrats in the state."

"Iowa Democrats say the scope of the ground war outstrips anything from past caucuses. 'It's much more intense, and it's also much more sophisticated,' said Rob Tully, former Iowa Democratic Party chairman and Iowa co-chairman of the Edwards campaign."

Be that as it might, the AP reports "Combined, candidates have spent at least $10 million on television advertisements in the state, compared with about $5 million poured into media markets that reach New Hampshire voters, a disparity that illustrates how crucial Iowa has become for several candidates." LINK

"'I totally expect this to exceed all past spending in the Iowa caucuses by campaigns,' said Evan Tracey, president of TNS Media Intelligence-Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks advertisement spending. 'It's interesting because it's never been much of a media state. It's always been a turnout state.'"

The New York Times ' Todd Purdum writes of Al Gore's "bittersweet" Iowa trail run this week on Dr. Dean's behalf. LINK

Notes Purdum, "Mr. Gore largely avoided exchanges with reporters. He did, however, respond to a question about whether Iowans would take offense at Dr. Dean's comments in a television interview four years ago in which he dismissed caucuses as dominated by special interests. Mr. Gore said that Senator Harkin's endorsement, with its declaration that Iowans preferred an occasional misstep to canned campaign oratory, would lay any concerns to rest."

And we all know Al Gore is an expert on saying nasty things about the Iowa caucuses!!!!

The Washington Post quotes the former Veep as saying "no" to serving under a President Dean: "Asked in a brief interview whether he would consider serving in a theoretical Dean administration, Gore smiled and said, 'No, I'm a recovering politician. . . . I'm on about Step 9.'" LINK

Note to Al Gore: we know the press corps sometimes becomes bored with politicians' jokes and stories before ordinary people have even heard them, but trust us — every living Iowa Democrat knows the Shoney's story.

We are chock full o' other news in the run up to caucus eve with a slew of stories fighting for pole position and The Note's undivided (but short-spanned) attention, but promise to limit ourselves to just a few:

Former Treasury Sec. Paul O'Neill's new book dominates the headlines, asserting as it does that Saddam Hussein was a goner from the moment 43 replaced 42.

The upcoming issue of Time magazine quotes O'Neill thusly: ""From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country," he tells (author Ron) Suskind. "And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'"

And offers this: "Describing top-level meetings, O'Neill tells Suskind that during the course of his two years the president was 'like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people.' In his interview with Time, O'Neill winces a little at that quote. He's worried it's too stark and now allows that it may just be Bush's style to keep his advisers always guessing."

And finally this quote: "'The biggest difference between then and now,' O'Neill tells Suskind about his two previous tours in Washington, 'is that our group was mostly about evidence and analysis, and Karl [Rove], Dick [Cheney], Karen [Hughes] and the gang seemed to be mostly about politics. It's a huge distinction.'" The White House, for its part, asserts it is "not in the business of doing book reviews" and the president remains "forward looking."

The question is — will the administration ever be forced to address the substance of these charges — allegedly running for president without revealing pre-existing intentions and allegedly skewing more towards Israel — or just keep engaging on sly/personal attacks on O'Neill.

None of what the former Secretary alleges is shocking or new, but it is, in a sense, documented.

We wonder what O'Neill's old friend — the guy who brought him in — VPOTUS — has to say about all this.

(Note the New York Times asserts that at the same time the president is looking forward, he is also looking back at the crowded field of Democrats eager to nip at his Oval Office heels. LINK)

(And the New York Daily News says "Bush strategists deny they're measuring the drapes for a second term, but argue there's a huge difference between waging a respectable race and being in a position to win. They think Dean's verbal gaffes have created a 'stature gap' compared with Bush, and are convinced his pro-tax, pro-choice, anti-war posture energizes GOP core supporters.")

("'Four million cultural conservatives didn't vote in 2000,' a GOP strategist said, 'and Howard Dean has them salivating to turn out for us.'" LINK)

The Democratic candidates, for their part on the O'Neill matter, launch a verbal assault of "i-told-you-so's" and "there-you-have-its."

And we wonder if any campaign development in the whole world could be more on-message for Wes Clark. The Washington Post 's Mike Allen writes, "O'Neill charged in remarks released Saturday that President Bush began planning to oust Saddam Hussein within days of taking office and before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." LINK

And the other bit o' news this ayem: A new Newsweek poll calls Dean the Leader of the Pack, finding that "one week before the Iowa Caucus (sic), the nation's first election test, Dean continues to poll strongest among rival candidates with registered Democrats." LINK

"For his part, Dean continues to lead the pack of Democratic contenders in the run-up to Iowa and the Jan. 27 New Hampshire primary. Dean continues to hold the support of 24 percent of registered Democrats. Gen. Wesley Clark (with 12 percent of Democrats' votes), Gephardt (12 percent) and Senator John Kerry (12 percent) are all left jostling for second in a crowded field. Perhaps because there are so many candidates vying for the nomination, a majority (58 percent) of registered Democrats prefer someone other than Dean."

Newsweek's Fineman also offers a look behind-the-scenes on the lobbying (key word: Gore) and the timing (key word: now) of the Harkin Dean endorsement. LINK

And he drops this little post-AP nugget in the middle: "Dean also faced new questions about a tax-exempt charity he once headed, the Vermont Computer Project. Set up in the mid-'90s to provide equipment for local schools, it received at least $62,500 in pledges and contributions from insurance companies regulated by the state. Vermont records reviewed by NEWSWEEK show the donations may have been spurred by the then governor Dean's somewhat relaxed attitude toward regulating the donors."

Stay tuned …

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Today's top clips:

The Boston Globe 's sharp-elbowed Mark Jurkowitz looks at Dean's press management shift from the McCain model to the Bush/Gore model. LINK

Newsweek gets Vermont Attorney Gen. and longtime Dean ally William Sorrell to say he "wouldn't quite agree" with Dean's analysis that a judge should go through his papers page by page. And Sorrell says whatever the outcome in the Vermont courts, no one should expect to be reading any of the records any time soon: If Sorrell loses, he will likely appeal the case to the Vermont Supreme Court — "'so you can tack another year on.'"

AH, we can't wait to see the Judicial Watch release on this one. And Newsweek's Tamara Lipper and Evan Thomas report on the beauty of the president's "triangulation trick," borrowed from one Bill Clinton.

The Quad City Times endorses John Kerry for president, citing his ability to listen. LINK

The Iowa City Press-Citizen endorses John Kerry for president, citing his foreign-policy experience. LINK

John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are awfully fond of one another, reports the New York Times ' David Halbfinger. LINK

Do check out the senior Senator's campaign counsel for his more junior colleague. The Boston Globe 's Patrick Healy looks at Kerry's lighter side. LINK

Washington Post Clark beat reporter Paul Schwartzman writes of the signs and symbols of "Clark's emerging strength in New Hampshire, where the retired general has stumped for the past 11 days," before Noting "even with Clark's rise, it is far from certain that he can maintain the momentum. This is New Hampshire, after all, where seemingly strong candidates have been known to crumble at the finish, even though some went on to win the nomination." LINK

The Boston Globe 's Glen Johnson leads with: Howard Dean "hearing footsteps" in New Hampshire. "While Dean's standard stump speech criticizes (Kerry, Clark and Lieberman) for voting in favor of using military force in Iraq, on Friday he added another name to his litany: Clark." LINK

The AP reports President Bush "took a swipe" at Democratic candidates who want to roll back the tax cuts he enacted, declaring Saturday in his radio address that the reductions have fueled a broad economic recovery. LINK

The New York Times gets Republicans to say fat chance to the Democratic idea of rolling back the Bush tax cut. LINK (Note: We wonder if Steve Moore's navel ring is shaped like an elephant?)

The Washington Post gets Republicans to say fat chance to the president's immigration plan. LINK

African-American leaders are splitting the support among many candidates, the Boston Globe reports. LINK

Bob Novak writes that Democratic insiders think Edwards made a mistake by running for president because if he hadn't, he'd certainly end up as the Dems' nominee for vice president. And he focuses on the Hillary '08 scenario. LINK

Boston Globe 's Tom Oliphant writes that "it is no accident that the rest of the field, even Dean, have begun to ape Edwards's relentless focus on paycheck-dependent Americans." LINK

The Sunday News is running a transcript of Clark's interview with the Union Leader's editorial board and a statement from Clark press secretary Jamal Simmons under a headline that reads "Clark backs off abortion statement." LINK

Maureen Dowd sniffs at the The General's sweater-wearing ways, writing "the best way to beat a doctor is not to look like a pharmacist." LINK

ABC News' Lieberman campaign reporter Talesha Reynolds reports "the crowd gathered at the home of Dick and Katrina Swett Saturday evening was probably the largest yet for a Senator Lieberman house party, but the candidate was not there to see it. Many locals had arrived at 4:30 and waited more that two hours for Lieberman to show up, and everytime the door opened nearly two hundred pairs of eyes looked towards it.

The Senator spent the Sabbath in Portsmouth with his family, and they waited until three stars were visible in the night sky, marking its end, to depart for the fete, but actually left well after that. By the time the Liebermans arrived at the Swetts', many guests had left, eager to get home in time for dinner and the Patriots game. Lieberman, respectful of the sports fans in the room, gave truncated remarks and answered a few questions before making his way to the Manchester inaugural ball."

The Washington Post 's David Broder reflects on the seriousness with which the Iowa voters take their caucus responsibility and finds, the state is "a great place to start the process." LINK

The New Hampshire Sunday News looks at how television will cover the New Hampshire primary and notes that ABC, CNN and C-SPAN "are taking advantage of new technology that has reduced the size of their equipment, allowing a newsroom and studio operation to be compressed into a 40-foot long bus." LINK