Woodbury County is voting their butts off. New early vote data from Friday shows a big jump in absentee ballot requests in several counties. The Northwest Iowa county anchored by Sioux City saw a particularly large increase, bringing them to the fourth-most in the...
Fred Hubbell holds an 11-point lead over Nate Boulton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, the Des Moines Register's just-released poll shows, but Hubbell isn't yet breaking the 35% needed to avoid a convention. That gives every candidate hope that they can...
State Senator Nate Boulton will report having raised over a half million dollars for the January 1 to May 14 reporting period, bringing his total raised in the gubernatorial race to $1.6 million, his campaign tells Starting Line. He'll close out the last two weeks...
Iowans don't often pay much attention to the election for State Auditor every four years. They certainly will be watching in 2018, thanks at least in part to Democrat Rob Sand's continued fundraising success. Sand's campaign will report raising $179,000 in the...
With just 18 days left until the June 5 primary, there's more developments from the campaign trail every day than we have to time to write about. Like our story last Friday, here's our end-of-week roundup piece for all the campaign news we didn't do full stories...
Democratic primary voters finally saw a new side to the six-candidate field for governor in last night's IPTV debate. Tough questions from the moderators and various attacks from individual candidates (all aimed at Fred Hubbell) put the candidates on their toes and...
Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard speaks with 13th District Iowa State Representative Chris Hall about upcoming elections & Democrats' predicted 'blue wave,' followed by an interview with Democratic gubernatorial...
Early voting began for the June 5 primary last week, but the overall numbers for the Democratic primary aren't too impressive yet. A big reason for that is due to the later start of the early vote - Republicans reduced that timeframe from 40 days to 29 with their...
Photo: top, left to right: Molly Donahue, Lindsay James, Ann Fields. Bottom, left to right: Lori Egan, Janice Weiner, Mary Stewart. The influential pro-choice organization EMILY's List is wading in to several state legislative primaries in Iowa. The national group...
What the fuck was that? The six Democratic candidates vying for their party's gubernatorial nomination faced off this evening in Davenport for their first "debate." Well, we were told this would be a debate, anyway. I put that word in quotations because tonight's...
