Free tickets for two Iowa presidential campaign events with talk show host Oprah Winfrey and candidate Barack Obama are still available.
Winfrey will campaign for Obama Saturday in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
Free general admission tickets for both events are still available at the Obama Campaign’s 37 field offices across Iowa.
A [...]
Sen. Joe Bolkcom this week endorsed Barack Obama for president.
Bolkcom is a Democrat from Iowa City.
To date, including Bolkcom, Obama has received 18 endorsements from Iowa state legislators including:
Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, Rep. Deborah Berry, Sen. Bob Dvorsky, Rep. Elesha Gayman, Sen. Bill Heckroth, Rep. David Jacoby, Rep. Pam Jochum, Rep. [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has three grown children, told Iowans attending a farm summit in Des Moines today that his daughter Ashley, a 26-year-old social worker, is “the love of my life.”
Then he laughed and said: “Daughters are very difficult. How many men in here have a [...]
Olive Marie Sisley, 86, wasn’t feeling up to going out to lunch today, but her son convinced her to eat at Penny’s Diner in Missouri Valley.
As she was eating a chicken sandwich, former President Bill Clinton walked in the door.
“I was shocked,” said Sisley, who lives in a nursing [...]
A story making the rounds from Iowa today, originally aired on National Public Radio, featured an Iowa waitress alleging the Clinton campaign stiffed it on a tip. The Associated Press has now moved a story disputing the original tale:
NEW YORK (AP) — Let the record show: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential [...]
The NBC news program “Meet the Press” will originate from Des Moines Sunday morning with host Tim Russert interviewing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The one-hour show will be broadcast live at 8 a.m., instead of the normal 10 a.m. starting time. The program will originate from the studios of WHO-TV.
Apparently unflattering and inaccurate e-mails are circulating the Internet about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
One says he failed to pledge allegiance to the American flag during Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry in Indianola in September. The other claims he’s a Muslim.
An audience member at a campaign stop Tuesday [...]
Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston apologized to a crowd of more than 900 people at Kirkwood College Tuesday night for the tardiness of Barack Obama.
Langston apologized and then asked the crowd how many political candidates they know who arrives on time.
“We are sorry. The senator will be here soon,” Langston [...]
The Iowa Republican Party and Fox News Channel announced today plans for a Dec. 4 debate of the GOP presidential campaigns in Des Moines.
The Tuesday evening event is scheduled for Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines and comes as the race to the Jan. 3 caucuses enters its final month.
It was [...]
Iowa blogger Chuck Offenburger had a expose’ of sorts today about Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson.
Offenburger and his wife attended a campaign event in Jefferson over the weekend. “He gave a tremendous 45-minute speech, but the more he starting lifting his arms, putting his hands behind his head and sticking [...]
A young Des Moines resident who was forced to leave the Army because he is gay pleaded with Hillary Clinton today to rid the country of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Nick Brown, 23, waited outside of Clinton’s Polk County field office at 1900 Ingersoll Ave. around 5 p.m. today [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama joked today that Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who is evidently a distant cousin, is the black sheep of the family.
Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, made the remark during a campaign stop at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny. He said that the [...]
Barack Obama has opened two new Iowa campaign offices, his staff announced today.
The offices, in Fairfield and Perry, bring his total number of Iowa campaign offices up to 33, more than any other presidential candidate. A survey published by The Des Moines Register this week showed Hillary Clinton, a New [...]
Duffy Lyon, the famous Iowan who for decades sculpted butter cows at the Iowa State Fair, is featured in a new radio ad promoting Illinois Democrat Barack Obama for president.
“You know, you see a lot of manure in our line of work. It’s a lot like politics. You got to [...]
Rep. Mark Smith, a Democrat from Marshalltown, today announced his support for Barack Obama’s campaign for president.
“If we’re ever going to make progress on the tough challenges facing our nation, we will need to elect a bold leader who can face the special interests that have blocked our much needed [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, to a crowd of about 300 people today at the Benton County Fairgrounds, emphasized that he is the candidate who is most likely to sweep the country.
But he first needs the support of Iowans, he said.
“I want you to caucus for me because if [...]
Comments by former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack about different dialects of spoken English resurfaced this week, three years after they first popped
up during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Bostonherald.com noted on Sunday a 1994 column Vilsack wrote for The Mount Pleasant News in which she [...]
Barack Obama told a crowd of about 300 people in Indiaona today that perhaps some political opponents misjudge his experience because of his youthful Opie-like looks.
Opie, for readers who may be too young to know, was a spunky child character played by Ron Howard in the 1960s television series “The [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign is launching a new radio ad in Iowa that takes aim at Democrats as the party of big government and higher taxes.
Giuliani, former mayor of New York, touts in contrast his record. Says Giuliani, “I lowered taxes. I reduced the growth of government. I made government [...]
Iowa State Senator Tom Hancock announced today that he is endorsing Democrat Chris Dodd for president.
Hancock, who represents Delaware, Dubuque and Jones County, cited Dodd’s record as a leader who gets results.
“Chris Dodd, more than any other candidate in this race, offers leadership that has brought people together and gotten [...]
Campaign staff of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama unveiled a new television ad today featuring retired Air Force Four-Star General Merrill McPeak.
McPeak is a former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was in the Air Force for more than 35 years.
McPeak campaigned for Bob Dole in 1996 and [...]
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a U.S. Rep. from Texas, raised $5,080,000 in the three-month period that ended Sept. 30th, according to estimates released from the campaign today.
The campaign said they have $5.3 million on hand.
“Dr. Paul’s message is freedom, peace and prosperity,” said Paul’s campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “As [...]
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson plans to campaign in Iowa over the next several days, including a swing through central and northeast Iowa early next week, aides to the former Tennessee senator said.
Thompson plans to attend the Iowa Christian Alliance’s annual fall banquet Saturday at Seven Flags Events Center [...]
Polls of Iowa caucusgoers published today show Democrat Hillary Clinton edging John Edwards, while Republican Mitt Romney is maintaining his lead among GOP activists.
The polls, conducted by Strategic Vision, were taken Friday through Sunday and included the opinions of 600 likely Democratic caucusgoers and 600 likely Republican caucusgoers.
Clinton, [...]
Republican presidential candidates Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson plan to attend the Iowa Christian Alliance’s annual banquet Saturday in Clive, the event’s hosts said today.
Hunter, a California congressman, and Thompson, an actor and former Tennessee senator, will mingle with this audience of hundreds of Iowa social conservatives prior to the [...]
Campaign officials for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced today that Erin Wagner of Iowa City and Tracey Stovall of Des Moines won trips to New York sponsored by the campaign.
The trip is to attend a Manhattan rally headlined by Obama, an Illinois senator.
Last week the campaign announced that two [...]
At least 300 Iowans are expected to attend 39 “house party” fund-raising events across the state Wednesday night for Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
One of the larger Iowa events will get under way at 7 p.m. at campaign headquarters at 7700 University Ave. in Clive.
About 500 of the house parties [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is sponsoring a contest that will send two new supporters to a New York City Rally on Sept. 27.
At least one of the winners will be a student, according to e-mails from Obama’s Iowa staff.
To become a supporter and enter the contest, go to: [...]
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, now an adviser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, went on the attack against Republican Rudy Giuliani in a televised interview in New York, according to the New York Daily News:
Hillary Clinton has avoided taking potshots at Rudy Giuliani’s personal life — but one of [...]
The Iowa Republican Party announced today that presidential candidates Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson are scheduled to headline the annual Ronald Reagan Dinner on October 27.
Hunter, a California congressman, and Thompson, an actor and former Tennessee senator, will share the stage and audience of roughly 600 of the Iowa [...]
Democrat Barack Obama scored four more state legislator endorsements, his presidential campaign announced today.
State Sens. Rich Olive of Story City and Frank Wood of Eldridge and Reps. Helen Miller of Fort Dodge and Janet Petersen of Des Moines bring the total to 10 state lawmakers who have endorsed Obama. Attorney [...]
Volunteers assisting with the Iowa campaign of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be manning the phone banks on Thursday for a grassroots effort billed as “Iowa Super Thursday.” According to a campaign press release, the volunteers will be making thousands of calls to spread the word about Giuliani’s 12 [...]
Posted on behalf of Gannett News Service reporter Bill Theobald:
Given his Hollywood and television experience, and the modern emphasis on image in politics, it is no surprise that Fred Thompson’s first presidential campaign event was well scripted and well staged.
Thompson spoke to a group of a few hundred supporters [...]
Assistant House Majority Leader John Whitaker today became the seventh Iowa legislator to endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president.
Whitaker, a Hillsboro Democrat, cited Biden’s understanding of the impact of the war in Iraq on the families of soldiers. Whitaker’s son, Gabe, a
member of the Iowa National Guard, was [...]
Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG Foundation’s Democratic presidential forum on cancer is under way today in Cedar Rapids with four candidates scheduled to attend: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich. A photo blog of the forum is posted on the Livestrong.org Web site.
Republicans Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee [...]
A musical comedy inspired by the Iowa Caucuses, featuring song titles such as “Get Off Your Sorry Ass and Vote” will premiere in Des Moines right before the actual political event, producers announced today.
Right Brain Productions will present “Caucus! The Musical,” in 17 performances, Dec. 27 to Jan. 13 at [...]
Former Iowa State Fair butter sculptor Duffy Lyon has endorsed Barack Obama through a butter sculpture of his campaign logo.
Obama’s campaign unveiled Duffy Lyon’s butter work last week while campaigning in Iowa.
Here’s Duffy with her creation:
There’s Beverly Hills 90210, one of the top ZIP codes in the nation for donations to presidential candidates — not to mention TV fame and glamor.
But in Iowa, the golden land is Des Moines 50312.
The Center for Responsive Politics did an analysis of campaign contributions to candidates, published [...]
Former Iowa Democratic Party chairman Gordon Fischer called today to say he’s relaunching his blog, iowatrueblue.com, after about a three-week hiatus, with a new goal to avoid negative politics.
“I’m going to keep it 100 percent positive,” he said, noting that Karl Rove’s resignation is already putting him to the test [...]
Here’s some media griping in the wake of the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday in Ames:
Ryan Sager, in a column today in the New York Sun: “To revise the old Woody Allen line: Eighty percent of success is not showing up. While Mitt Romney may have nominally ‘won’ [...]
Chris Caldwell helped slice up watermelons trucked in from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s hometown of Hope.
How many? About 200.
How many fingers did he cut?
“Just one,” he said, holding it up the minor wound as proof.
Apparently, Hope is famous for its watermelon. The Huckabee campaign raffled off a 150-pounder, but [...]
1:49 p.m.
Chicago entrepreneur and presidential candidate John Cox left the stage while speakers blared the theme from “Rocky.”
A few minutes later, a slick video appeared on the giant screens hanging from the ceiling. Among the cameo appearances: Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Bono.
I’m pretty sure the video was about eliminating [...]
This just in from Register reporter Jennifer Jacobs:
Mike Huckabee was playing “Free Bird” on a bass guitar at his stage this morning.
The lyrics are about a guy breaking off a love affair, explaining why he can’t make a commitment. “If I leave here tomorrow,” begins the song by rock band [...]
Master (mistress?) of Ceremonies Laura Ingraham, a conservative talk show host, opened up the official straw poll program of what she called “the Iowa edition of American Idol” with a few jokes.
She said she visited the State Fair’s prize-winning boar and learned something new:
“I thought Washington had the biggest bores.”
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1:01 [...]
Drummer George Tremblay and and fifer John Weins, both of Colorado, took requests from their spot on a shady hill in the middle of the Ron Paul camp. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” were big favorites, they said.
The pair, decked out in tri-pointed colonial [...]
Mitt Romney’s five sons had a little bit of time to kill before the Des Moines-based rock band The Nadas performed outside Saturday morning.
The brothers recounted stories from their RAGBRAI adventures and were proud that one had just finished visiting each of Iowa’s 99 counties. Another raised his arm, which [...]
Foodie tips from Register reporter Jennifer Jacobs:
Sniffing the barbecue smoke in the air just before 10 a.m., Mary Paul Long of Wisconsin asked: “Who has the best food?”
Well, five candidates are going with barbecue pork sandwiches. A couple are doing breakfast.
John Cox’s main giveaway is Jays potato chips. Cox is [...]
Hundreds lined up for a barbecue pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, pasta salad, chips and cookies in the Mitt Romney tent west of Hilton Coliseum. The food was provided by Hickory Park, a legendary barbecue restaurant in Ames.
Apparently, Romney’s campaign called Hickory Park way back in December to secure their [...]
OK, sorry for all the animal posts, but this one was too hard to pass up.
James D’Angelo of Chicago had a little trouble slipping into his ostrich suit outside of Hilton Coliseum.
“I’ve got big hips, OK? I’m sorry,” he said with a laugh, while Liz Morgan of Seattle helped zip [...]
A distant, much cuter cousin of the State Fair’s Big Boar napped in a small, white-picket-fence pen in the shade of Stephens Auditorium. The little pink pig and her owner, Eric Martens of Indianola, were invited to the straw poll festivities by FairTax.org.
“They called and said they were doing a [...]
Charles Ranalli of Albuquerque, N.M., found a novel solution to stay cool: He covered a black umbrella with aluminum foil to reflect the sun.
“It’s a modern version of a parasol,” he said.
Ironically, Ranalli came to the Republican straw poll with an organization called Vote in Sunshine, which advocates the use [...]
Buddy the Monkey greeted participants in Saturday’s straw poll from a window perch in the RV of his owner, Linda Honnicutt of Asheville, N.C.
Usually the 14-year-old Black-Capped Capuchin has free rein of the RV, but with all the crowds today, Honnicutt hooked him up to a tether from the ceiling.
“The [...]
Former New York Mayor paid high praise to one of his rivals, Arizona Sen. John McCain, telling an Iowa audience Monday he would have backed McCain for president in 2008. That is, had Giuliani decided not to run.
“I can tell you quite honestly, if I weren’t running for president, I [...]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and WHO Radio host Jan Mickelson got into a heated off-air discussion over the former Massachusetts governor’s religion Thursday, after Romney appeared as a guest on the Des Moines radio personality’s show.
Mickelson accused Romney of distancing himself from the faith, a religion some social [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s saddled up and headed to Iowa, almost as if he were gearing up for the Ames straw poll.
The former New York mayor, now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has his longest and most intensive trip to the leadoff caucus state planned for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
He [...]
Mitt Romney often talks about the enthusiasm and energy Iowans invest in the leadoff presidential caucuses.
But the Republican former Massachusetts governor admitted being taken aback by a would-be supporter.
Romney told about 100 Iowans at an Urbandale campaign stop Thursday that he decided to take a jog after arriving [...]
Former state Sen. Gene Maddox has joined Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s Iowa campaign, aides to the former New York mayor announced today.
Maddox, who is also the former mayor of Clive, was named Giuliani’s central Iowa campaign chairman, part of a string of Iowa endorsements Giuliani has been rolling [...]
“Jack was saying to me, he said, â€So, Dad, did Lance ride faster than you?’ I said â€No.’ And Elizabeth, as usual, chimed in and said, â€That’s because he chose not to, Jack.’”
— Presidential candidate John Edwards, before a speech in Des Moines today, recalling a conversation he had with [...]
Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign is trading jabs with the Iowa Democratic Party, which on Monday attacked Huckabee’s “disastrous” health record while he was governor of Arkansas.
“Under Huckabee, Arkansas was ranked 46th in the state health rankings by the United Health Foundation, and he needs to explain why he couldn’t do [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s campaign is expanding its outreach to Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, showing the former New York mayor is stepping up his effort in the leadoff nominating state.
Giuliani, who made his first overnight Iowa trip last week, began airing radio ads across the state and in New Hampshire today. He [...]
Yeah, OK, there will be a lot of candidates at the Iowa Republican Straw Poll — but what’s on the menu?
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback ends the suspense about what he’ll be serving. In a news release today, his campaign announced he’s going to be serving Famous Dave’s barbecue at his [...]
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, today endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president.
“I have known Hillary Clinton for a decade,” Wilson said in a statement released by the Clinton campaign. “She is the one candidate who, in my judgment, understands the need to get [...]
Sen. Bill Heckroth, a Waverly Democrat, today announced his support for Barack Obama for president.
Heckroth is the fifth state lawmaker to endorse Obama. Last week, Sen. Tom Rielly, an Oskaloosa Democrat, also announced his endorsement for Obama, an Illinois senator.
Heckroth today noted that Obama’s “refusal to accept money from” [...]
Des Moines east sider Morris Murphy met former President Bill Clinton at a breakfast at the State Fairgrounds July 3rd.”I told Bill that I’m told I resemble him,” Murphy said. “He replied, ‘Has anyone hit you yet?’”
A Web site that once took shots at Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently made an abrupt about-face.
Huckabee’s campaign manager Chip Saltsman sent out an E-mail today that mentioned the redesigned Web site that launched Friday. But he didn’t say that mikehuckabee.com was recently purchased for $5,000 from an [...]
Sen. Bob Dvorsky, a Coralville Democrat, has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
“Senator Obama had the wisdom to oppose the war in Iraq from the beginning and the courage to speak out against it when other politicians wouldn’t,” Dvorsky said in a statement. “He has spent his time in the U.S. [...]
A poll of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa showed Fred Thompson trailing only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, vaulting the former Tennessee senator ahead of former Iowa leaders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain.
Romney remained in front with support from 23 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers in the telephone survey conducted [...]
Republican state Sen. Thurman Gaskill, a farmer from Corwith, will play a couple of agriculture-related roles in the presidential campaign of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Gaskill will serve as chairman of Iowa Farmers for Rudy and national co-chairman of Agriculture for Giuliani.
“As a lifelong farmer and devoted [...]
Former president Bill Clinton will campaign with his wife Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton next week across Iowa, campaign aides have announced.
The pair will campaign together in Des Moines Monday evening, July 2, before traveling to eastern Iowa for campaign events in Iowa City and Davenport Tuesday, July 3.
The former [...]
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas plans to be in Des Moines Saturday, despite his exclusion from a presidential candidates forum by the event’s organizers.
Paul, a Republican, is planning to headline a rally at the conclusion of the forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian [...]
K.C Jones is Rudy Giuliani’s new pick for executive director of his Iowa campaign. During the 2004 presidential race, Jones worked for the Bush-Cheney campaign in Iowa as a field director and in Minnesota as deputy executive director. Jones replaces Joe Jarabeck, who was named in May to oversee Guiliani’s [...]
A survey conducted by a Republican polling firm in Iowa found that a slim majority of Iowa GOP activists would be less likely to caucus for Rudy Giuliani or John McCain in light of the candidates’ decisions to bypass the state party’s straw poll in August.
The poll was conducted [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Christopher Dodd is scheduled to campaign with singer Paul Simon next month, aides to the Connecticut senator said today.
Dodd and Simon are longtime friends, and the front half of Simon and Garfunkel had asked to help him campaign. The answer is apparently a July weekend trip [...]
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney released a new TV ad today emphasizing his central belief that the U.S. should cut taxes and shrink government.
Romney hit that theme hard in a Father’s Day weekend swing through Iowa, where he regularly invoked the name of President Ronald Reagan, a role model.
[...]
A poll published Tuesday by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, Inc., showed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowly ahead of her Democratic rivals in the leadoff caucus state, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney led among Republicans.
Clinton received support from 22 percent of the 400 “likely Democratic caucus voters” interviewed [...]
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is staging a show of force in Iowa beginning this week, sending senior political staff to the leadoff caucus state to work on building the former New York mayor’s organization.
For the next two weeks, Giuliani campaign manager Mike DuHaime, national political director Mark Campbell, [...]
Quote of the day:
“You know what? If we have to, we’ll hold the caucuses next Tuesday.”
— Johnson County supervisor and Democratic activist Terence Neuzil, vowing to keep Iowa’s first-in-the nation status no matter how early other states hold their primaries.
Has Barack Obama become a sex symbol?
A music video called “I’ve got a crush on Obama,” performed by singer Leah Kauffman is circulating the Internet, including the popular YouTube Web site.
The video shows a model in various poses. In one scene, she is in a bikini, standing in [...]
Dusky Terry is the latest in a series of aides to former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack’s presidential campaign to sign up with Hillary Clinton, the Democrat’s campaign announced today.
Terry, 31, was the caucus director for Vilsack’s short-lived presidential campaign after working in Vilsack’s administration, first as a policy adviser [...]
Democratic presidential candidates Christopher Dodd and Bill Richardson launched their latest television ads today, while Republican Tommy Thompson launched his presidential campaign’s first radio spot. Here’s a brief summary:DODD
Dodd, a Connecticut senator, began airing two TV ads, one highlighting his experience and the other showcasing his young family. Dodd [...]
At least 1,500 Iowa volunteers took part Saturday in a door-to-door campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, his staff said today.
Nationally, more than 10,000 volunteers participated. Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, kicked off the event in Dubuque.
Here are the detailed Iowa numbers released today:
• 38 events with [...]Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans a swing through eastern Iowa this weekend.
The former Massachusetts governor plans stops in Oelwein, Waverly, Waterloo, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Burlington, Wapello and Muscatine.
The campaign will include fundraisers, a Father’s Day brunch, and question-and-answer sessions.
Here’s the full schedule:
Friday:
OELWEIN: 3:15 p.m., coffee, [...]
Sen. Chris Dodd, a Democratic candidate for president, won’t be in Iowa this weekend after all — he has “an unexpected and severe case of the stomach flu,” his campaign reported today.
“I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. I know Senator Dodd is extremely disappointed to be missing the trip and [...]
A proposal to shift Iraq’s governmental control into the hands of its citizens in specified regions of the country was unveiled by a group of Democrats and Republican congressional officials Thursday.
The plan, which will likely be taken up by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee this fall, would lead [...]
Washington, D.C. - The opportunity to mingle with more than 200 Des Moines area residents — and just a cab ride from the U.S. Capitol — was too tempting.
Two presidential candidates, Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, made it to a reception on Wednesday night thrown [...]
Mike Huckabee’s presidential exploratory committee announced today the future location of its Iowa headquarters in downtown Des Moines.
The office is expected to open in the next week on the ground floor of the Des Moines Building, 405 6th Ave.
The former Arkansas Governor hasn’t made many recent campaign stops in Iowa [...]
Two new surveys of likely Iowa caucusgoers show Democrat John Edwards and Republican Mitt Romney leading their respective party’s for the 2008 presidential caucuses.
The polls, touchtone responses to automatically dialed telephone numbers, were conducted by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C.
The Democrat survey showed Edwards, a former U.S. [...]
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson disagreed tonight with former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ statement last month that the war on terrorism was more propaganda from the Bush administration than an effective policy.
Richardson was asked about the issue during a news conference outside a party fundraiser in Cedar Rapids [...]
Des Moines lawyer Jerry Crawford plans to publicly endorse Hillary Clinton for president, a noteworthy but not surprising move by the longtime Clinton ally, Democratic powerbroker and fellow Scorpio.
“It’s because she’s ready to be president on Day One,” Crawford told The Des Moines Register today.
Crawford joins former Iowa [...]
Sen. John McCain’s visit today to Nationwide Insurance Co. in Des Moines isn’t open to the general public, but you can watch it on C-SPAN.
The Arizona Republican presidential candidate’s town hall meeting with employees of the company will be televised on C-SPAN at 2:30 p.m. central time today.
It’s McCain’s only [...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver launched a new Web site today that focuses on the reasons why Iowa is the first presidential caucus state.
“Iowa Caucus 2008: First in the Nation” at www.IowaCaucus.org is a statewide, non-partisan resource for news media, campaign staff and the general public on the Iowa Caucuses.
“The [...]
Iowa Democrats have released their schedule for the Hall of Fame Dinner in Cedar Rapids. Among the presidential candidates expected to attend, Sen. Chris Dodd speaks first, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Sen. John Edwards, Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Joe Biden.
The event starts at 6:30 p.m. at the [...]
Republican presidential candidate John McCain held a narrow lead among Iowa caucusgoers, according to a poll published today by American Research Group.
The Arizona senator was the choice of 25 percent of Iowa’s GOP caucusgoers, followed by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani with 23 percent.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney [...]
John Edwards and his Iowa campaign co-chairwoman are lashing at Republicans during an eastern Iowa tour this weekend.
At several stops, the North Carolina Democrat tied Republican front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani to President Bush’s unpopular war in Iraq. “As best I can tell, they just want to be [...]
A spokesman for Obama released the following statement today in regard to McCain’s latest dig:
“America doesn’t need juvenile name-calling from Washington, we need a commitment to end this war and bring our brave troops home,” said Tommy Vietor, Obama’s Iowa Press Secretary.
[...]McCain sent the following statement soon after Obama’s.
(See the 1 p.m. post for more details)
“While Senator Obama’s two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama responded Friday to criticisms from Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney about his no vote Thursday to a $120 billion war-funding bill.
McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, and Romney, a former Massachusetts Gov., each released statements soon after the vote.
McCain said he [...]
Mike Huckabee hosted a conference call for bloggers this morning that departed from the typical political speak and wandered into the realm of redneck jokes.
The Republican presidential hopeful’s comments were prompted by one blogger who calls herself the “Michigan Redneck.”
“I didn’t know there were any rednecks in Michigan,” Huckabee [...]
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will deliver a commencement speech Saturday at Des Moines University.
He has agreed to carve out a small chunk of time for The Des Moines Register that afternoon to talk about his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Huckabee has spent a relatively small amount of time [...]
