It is past time for more candidates to drop out of the presidential primary. Seventy-nine days out from the Iowa Caucus, we still have 17 Democratic contenders in the race. The total number started going in the wrong direction this past week with Deval Patrick's...
A recently-released survey from PPP Polls has good news for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer in the lead-off caucus state. Both are moving up in the still-crowded Democratic primary, with Klobuchar polling at 9% and Steyer at 6% in Iowa in this survey. Klobuchar's new...
Guest op-ed from Bonnie Louise Brown, a member of the Iowa Democratic Party State Central Committee Right now in this country and in our home state of Iowa, we have a crisis. Hate crimes are on the rise. We have concentration camps on our southern border and...
The impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump went public this week, a move presidential candidate Tom Steyer has called for since he first spoke out on impeachment in 2017. In his first Need To Impeach ad, on Oct. 21, 2017, Steyer said: "He has brought us to...
On the campaign trail, U.S. Senate candidate Eddie Mauro hits many of the issues important to Democratic voters like health care, gun safety and climate change. But beyond his stump speech, it is apparent Mauro has a deeper connection to these issues than political...
Iowa Congressman Steve King drew a "Pants On Fire!" rating today from the fact-checking website PolitiFact, for pushing a conspiracy theory that the whistleblower who spoke out against President Donald Trump is George Soros' son. King, who often buys into viral...
We're starting to enter peak advertising season here in the Iowa Caucus, as messages from presidential candidates compete with holiday ads on the TV screens. Starting Line counts eight different Democratic contenders with spots on Iowa TV this week, most of which...
Iowa Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley voted to confirm Chad Wolf as the Department of Homeland Secretary undersecretary. It's a move that propelled Wolf, a man who suggested immigrant children be separated from their families at the country's southern border,...
We may only be 82 days away from the Iowa Caucus, but that's still multiple political lifetimes in today's media cycles. For a few months now, the top-four field has largely been set: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Lately, Warren...
Guest op-ed from Josh Smith, a law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law. I drove over 2,000 miles to work for Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in the summer of 2018. And more significant than that, in Montana’s 129 years of statehood, I am likely the...
