edited by: Art Smith,
Iowa Editor
1. RPI chair with a spine of steel, mind of Gingrich, speaking ability of Reagan, principles of King, alliances of Latham, success of Grassley, and Teflon coating.
A recent Research 2000 poll found a Sen. Chuck Grassley v. Governor Tom Vilsack match-up a feasible win for the Democrats (Grassley 48, Vilsack 44). As far as Iowa blogs, Krusty has the scoop on this one.
Bill Northey first ran for public office in the horrible Republican year of 2006. He was able to win with 51 percent of the vote. That doesn’t sound like too much but remember Culver won with 54 percent. He is a very likeable guy with very [...] 
Anyone involved in Iowa politics knows Bruce Rastetter has been making an effort to become a player in Republican circles. The question remains, why and to what end?
Having been defeated in his bid for re-election for Iowa House minority leader, Christopher Rants has to be scratching his head wondering what to pursue next. I can’t see him just sitting there in the House while not in a leadership position. I do know he’s aggressively [...] 
I’d like to get a little competition going here on when Bob Vander Plaats officially announces his run for governor again. Maybe he doesn’t even need to announce it since everybody knows it is coming. And what would the world be like without Bob running for [...] 
Sen. Paul McKinley just took over the reigns as minority leader in the Iowa Senate. McKinley is a very good conservative who should be able to start making up ground in the Senate.
With yesterday’s election of Paulsen to be our new minority leader in the Iowa House, we now have our first real sign of change in our Party. I posted yesterday morning on restructuring the Party and wrote first on fundraising. Although I do consider that about half of what a [...]
I haven’t commented much on the Iowa House and our chances of getting the majority back partly because I was biding my time and also because every day the dynamics seemed to drastically change.