The Ames Straw poll is only 20 months away, so obviously it’s time to roll out Iowa Caucus power rankings.
A three-way Republican primary battle is taking shape for the right to challenge Democratic incumbent Secretary of State Michael Mauro.
Mike Huckabee compares U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson to Judas [...]
Bill Maske, the current superintendent for the I-35 School District is stepping forward as the first Democratic challenger to incumbent Congressman Tom Latham (R-IA). I think he would have been better off running in 2006 or 2008 (pre-Tea Party). He shared some of his [...]
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Des Moines, has yet another Republican challenger, as retired architect Mark Rees has officially joined the 2010 3rd District GOP primary.
Rees formed a campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission last week. His campaign Web site, www.markreesforcongress.com, will go live next week [...]
Last fall in Linn County's House District 37, my friend Renee Schulte defeated the incumbent, Art Staed by 13 votes. Given the razor thin margin, everyone knew that this race would be targeted in 2010.
Renee has been working hard already. She has been out door-knocking and [...]
This week Cedar Rapids attorney Mark Seidl announced his plans to run [...]
Democrat Mark Seidl of Cedar Rapids has announced he’ll challenge incumbent Republican state Rep. Renee Schulte in Iowa House District 37.
Schulte won the district, which encompasses primarily northeastern Cedar Rapids, by defeating incumbent Democrat Art Staed in 2008 by only 13 votes. According to the Iowa Secretary [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee has compiled a list of 17 incumbent Democrats they hope to pressure into retirement before the 2010 elections, and Iowa 3rd District Rep. Leonard Boswell is one of them.
According to the National Journal, the informal list, called the “Dem Retirement Assault List,” includes [...]
An informal list of 17 members the NRCC believes can be convinced to step down, privately called the "Dem Retirement Assault List," makes clear the party needs Dem incumbents to step aside if they have hopes of [...]
Jim Gibbons, the former wrestling coach at Iowa State University who hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, issued a release Thursday criticizing Democratic leadership for a what he considers a light workload in 2010.
On the same day that the Republican primary field grew [...]
Next year is perhaps the best opportunity for a Republican to unseat incumbent U.S. Congressman Leonard Boswell, said Brad Zaun, a state senator who announced today he will seek his party’s nomination to challenge the seven-term Democrat.
“If you’re an incumbent, you’re vulnerable,” Zaun said at a hardware store on Des Moines’ south side where [...]
Story County Treasurer Dave Jamison and Dyersville Mayor Jim Heavens have announced plans to challenge Democratic state Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald.
The pair of Republicans will face off in a primary for the chance to take on the 28-year incumbent.
Jamison lives in Ames and was first elected as Story County [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Bob Krause said today he wants President Barack Obama to “halt the rush for escalation” of American forces in Afghanistan.
He said he feared Obama’s plan could push India and Pakistan closer to war.
Krause, one of several Iowa Democrats seeking his party’s nomination to oppose incumbent Republican Sen. [...]
