Recorded - Feb 28, 2007 David Yepsen, a leading authority on the Iowa caucuses, he writes about state and national politics for the Des Moines Register; David Yepsen is the Des Moines Register's political columnist. He is graduate of the University of Iowa and holds a masters degree in public administration from Drake University. He has covered Iowa government and politics for 30 years. Yepsen Blog: blogs.dmregister.com Tom Rath, national Republican political strategist Tom, the founder of the firm and former Attorney General of New Hampshire, has been actively involved in government relations since entering private practice in 1980. He was appointed by President George HW Bush to be a director of the Legal Services Corporation. Tom served as the Chairman of the election campaigns of New Hampshire's former US Senator, Warren Rudman, and current senior US Senator, Judd Gregg and he actively assisted in the US Senate process that confirmed David Souter as Supreme Court Justice. Tom has served as a senior national advisor to the presidential campaigns of Howard Baker, Robert Dole, Lamar Alexander and George W. Bush. He has been a delegate to the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Republican National Conventions and he is the Republican Party National Committeeman for New Hampshire. Jonathan Epstein, former national Democratic political strategist. For more than three years leading up to the Election Day in 2004, Jonathan worked for Senator John Kerry. First as a senior ...