The Register has done Iowans a favor this morning with its perusal of, and then reporting about, the "newly released state campaign finance disclosure reports for 2007." Jennifer Jacobs, "Democrat McCarthy Raises Most Money at $251,000," Des Moines Regislter, January 24, 2008. But it has only scratched the surface. ... The disclosure reports, and the Register's reporting, provide the "data" -- or at least some of it. What we now need is the additional data, and discovery of relationships, that can turn that data into "information" and "knowledge."

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