Mark Chelgren, Republican state senator and candidate for Congress in the 2nd District, has a rather unique immigration plan he wants to talk about. According to an interview he did with the Journal Express of Marion County, Chelgren will advocate for executing...
After months of several candidates' rises and falls, the final picture of caucus night is starting to come into focus. A top tier of four candidates has emerged, composed of Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio, with Carson the shakiest of the bunch....
Good morning readers! Starting Line is back after a couple days off for the Thanksgiving holiday and to attend to newly-arrived Baby Starting Line. We're now looking at the final two month sprint heading to the Iowa Caucus on February 1st. In these next two months,...
Guest Post from Every Child Matters Children are twenty-three percent of our population yet one hundred percent of our future. Decisions made today are critical to their success later in life. As voters, we should take our responsibility seriously to assure our...
Most people's idea of a fun 21st birthday celebration probably doesn't entail working from sunrise to midnight and getting serenaded by your guitar-playing boss in front of all your co-workers and friends. But if you're an Iowa Caucus field organizer, that's...
Hillary Clinton scored a major victory this past week by gaining the endorsement of SEIU, the healthcare workers union that represents over 2 million workers. That bumped the total membership of unions backing her candidacy to nearly 11 million. With the...
Young Iowans around the state were "feeling the Bern" Thursday night at mock caucuses held jointly by Democratic and Republican county parties and the Secretary of State's office. Sanders took over half of the delegates in the Democrats' contest, while O'Malley...
And then there were 14. Or 13, depending on how you're counting. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ended his campaign for the Republican nomination on Tuesday, saying it was clear that 2016 simply was "not his time." Jindal had seen some upward movement recently in...
Congressman Steve King's endorsement of Ted Cruz for the Iowa Caucus yesterday morning didn't come as too shocking a surprise. With Cruz gaining the most traction of any of the Tea Party/evangelical Republicans, Iowa's conservative leaders have gravitated toward...
The reverberations of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris continue to spread across the world and, predictably, quickly washed upon the shores of the U.S. presidential race. If the first few days worth of reactions are any indication, the Republican presidential...
