Iowa Democrats added a lot of new voters to their rolls thanks to the Iowa Caucus, gaining a net of 27,385 new registrations from the February to March report. It was only about half as large an increase that followed the historic 2008 caucus, but it was still enough...
Democrats have jumped out to a lead in the number of registered voters in Iowa, surpassing registered Republicans by nearly 15,000 statewide following the Feb. 3 Iowa Caucus. Republicans are now in third place among voter registrations; both parties trail No Party...
The final Iowa Caucus results are finally final: Pete Buttigieg has won (still). This evening, the Iowa Democratic Party released the results of the recount requested by Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg's campaigns for 23 precincts. They reported that 19 results at...
The Iowa Caucus has certainly seen its fair share of justified criticism in recent months. The IDP and DNC were blasted for the caucus night reporting failure. Continued questions over Iowa's place in the process ramped back up — it's too white, it's too old, it's too...
Iowa Democrats have a new state party chair: State Rep. Mark Smith of Marshalltown. The party's state central committee members gathered today in Des Moines and over the phone to elect Smith as the interim chair following Troy Price's resignation over the fallout from...
Troy Price's tenure as the Iowa Democratic Party chair officially comes to an end today as the party's state central committee gathers to select an interim replacement. He announced his resignation on Wednesday, following over a week of fallout from the party's...
Troy Price's tenure as the Iowa Democratic Party chair officially comes to an end today as the party's state central committee gathers to select an interim replacement. He announced his resignation on Wednesday, following over a week of fallout from the party's...
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price will step down as the head of the state party, he announced this afternoon. His departure will come after the intense criticism of the delayed results from last week's Iowa Caucus, which still are not fully final as campaigns and...
Sandwiched in-between Burlington and Muscatine, along the Mississippi River, the "bedroom community" of Wapello, Iowa, is not a common stop for Democrats on the presidential campaign trail. But on Feb. 3, an unexpected candidate drew some "pretty surprised faces,"...
Guest op-ed by Mike Jacobsen, a higher education professional from Williamsburg, Iowa Feb. 3, 2020, the day after the Super Bowl (and my birthday), was going to be a day to remember. Iowa was to kick off the “official” beginning to the 2020 election season, and I was...
