October 2019
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What Iowans Thought Of Tonight’s Crowded Debate
Team Starting Line fanned out to multiple debate watch parties tonight in Des Moines, tasked with gathering voters’ reactions to the 12-candidate event. The three-hour debate featured the largest field of presidential candidates on one debate stage ever. Take a look at what Iowans thought of the candidates’ performances in Ohio: Grandview University, Des Moines…
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Michael Bennet Keeps Focus On Iowa As Competitors Debate
In the middle of the night, at a gas station in rural Iowa, an employee recognized a little-known presidential candidate approaching the cash register. “You’re Bennet,” the woman said. The “Bennet” she recognized was Michael Bennet, a U.S. senator from Colorado and one of more than a dozen Democratic candidates vying for the White House.…
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Steve King Targeted By Anti-Corruption Group End Citizens United
A group dedicated to getting corporate money out of politics has highlighted Congressman Steve King as a top priority for defeating in 2020. End Citizens United announced King’s addition to the organization’s “Big Money 20” list today, marking him as an important incumbent to defeat in next year’s election. “Rep. Steve King’s racist and demeaning…
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Eddie Mauro Drops $1 Million Into His Senate Campaign
Des Moines businessman Eddie Mauro is certainly serious about defeating Sen. Joni Ernst. New FEC campaign finance reports out today show that Mauro has invested another $1 million of his own money into his Senate campaign during the 3rd quarter of the year. That’s on top of the $100,000 he loaned himself earlier this cycle.…
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Meet The Iowa Town That Loves Tulsi And Marianne
Scroll through past Iowa Caucus result maps, and you’ll often find a peculiar outlier in the southeast corner of the state. There lies Jefferson County, home to Fairfield, a small town once described by Oprah Winfrey as “America’s most unusual town,” well-known in Iowa for its support of outside-the-box candidates on both sides of the…
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Franken Hits Ernst On Impeachment In First IA-Sen Ad
Iowa’s U.S. Senate election is over a year out, yet we already have the first candidate TV ad up of the cycle. Democratic candidate Michael Franken, a retired three-star Navy admiral, launched his first television ad today criticizing Republican Joni Ernst for her “dereliction of duty” as a senator and veteran. “As veterans, Joni and…
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Governor Bullock Picks Up New Iowa Endorsements
He won’t be in the debate this evening, but Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is still making progress in Iowa today with the new endorsements of several notable Iowans. The list of new endorsers include Woodbury County Supervisor Marty Pottebaum, Clinton County Auditor Eric Van Lancker, former Iowa Senate Assistant Majority Leader Staci Appel and former…
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Ep122: Early States Poll, Buttigieg Rally, Rep. Deb Haaland Interview
Josh Cook subs as host for an interview with Congresswoman Deb Haaland from New Mexico, one of the first Native American Congresswomen elected along with Representative Sharice Davids of Kansas, about her trip to Iowa campaigning for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Paige Godden also joins to talk about Pete Buttigieg’s Saturday event at Roosevelt High School…
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Do Americans Still Have Faith In The Supreme Court?
In the coming months, the Supreme Court will decide important questions that touch millions of Americans’ lives, and many people aren’t confident it will be for the better. But the concern goes beyond individuals. According to Gallup polling, as of 2019, only 38% of Americans have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of trust…
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Labor Issues Take Back Seat To Process Questions
Sunday’s United Food and Commercial Workers forum in Altoona was supposed to be focused on labor issues. In the hall, with several hundred labor union members seated in the audience, it was. Outside, not so much. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who’s had a tough time polling over 3%, said “I don’t know, I don’t know,”…
