If you’re thinking of heading to Sioux City to catch Sarah Palin’s book-signing, better gas up the night before and head out early.
The event, at Barnes & Noble in Southern Hills Mall, is expected to be crowded, although store officials are making accommodations — like allowing people to wait in [...]
Vice President Joe Biden greeted Iowans at 8:21 p.m. with his familiar “folks” and thanked the crowd for pushing Barack Obama and Biden to the White House.
Of course, Iowans pushed Obama a bit harder than they pushed Biden, he acknowledged. Obama won the caucuses, but Biden came in fifth and [...]
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin addressed the Hy-Vee Hall crowd via video, saying he expected Gov. Chet Culver to win re-election and praising congressional Democrats’ work on health-care reform.
He remained in Washington for a key procedural vote to move a health-care reform bill forward in the Senate. After he spoke, Iowa [...]
Rep. Bruce Braley told the crowd it’s not the time for Iowa Democrats to be walking around and looking glum.
He recalled that when he first ran for office, in 2006, Democrats trailed Republicans in voter registrations. Now, Democrats far outnumber Republicans in registrations.
He also made mention of a favorite theme [...]
Des Moines trial lawyer Roxanne Conlin portrayed Republican Sen. Charles Grassley this evening as beholden to special interests and appealed to a crowd of about 200 party activists to lend their time and dollars to her campaign to oust him.
She noted that Grassley, a five-term senator, has served in public [...]
Each candidate was given ten minutes to address the crowd.
Jerry Behn kicked things off.
7:17 – Jerry Behn takes stage
VA and NJ proves that GOP ideas are alive and well.
The only way dems get elected with when the co-opt GOP ideas, but they don’t follow through in [...]
To the Newton Independent
Thank you to everyone who attended the Jasper County Democrats' Annual Soup Supper and Auction on Sunday. Your contributions will support our candidates and causes.
It was exciting to see such a large crowd come out to hear Congressman Boswell, Secretary of State Mauro, First Lady Mari Culver,' [...]
If Sarah Palin is so irrelevant as many in the left roots would claim why is it that the DNC is attacking her? Vice President Joe Biden decided to chime in today as well when he spoke to a gigantic, huge crowd of 250 [...]
