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...
New Endorsements, Ads And Trips As Primary Draws Closer
With just three and a half weeks remaining in the Democratic primary, the candidates are criss-crossing the state and blanketing the airwaves and mailboxes with ads. They're also rolling out endorsements from late-deciding leaders to project momentum. Here's a look at...
Report Sees Multiple “Risks” For Steve King’s Reelection
Is Congressman Steve King at risk of losing reelection? Every single cycle, Democrats hope and pray that this will finally be the year that the reviled Republican will go down in electoral defeat. And every cycle, the conservative lean of Iowa's 4th Congressional...
Steve King Posts Photo Of A Nazi On Hitler’s Birthday
Congressman Steve King's social media team is at it again. The official Facebook page of Iowa's 4th District member of Congress has long been a pit of childish and bizarre right-wing memes and petty insults against liberals. But today King had a particularly foolish...
4th District Dem Leann Jacobsen Calls For Boycott Of Sinclair Stations
The fallout for Sinclair Broadcasting stations continue after a viral video showed them all reading from the same script about "fake news." Leann Jacobsen, one of the Democratic candidates looking to take on Steve King in Iowa's 4th Congressional District, is calling...
Corbett, Caligiuri Booted From Ballot, Greenfield Still Going
The state's three-person elections commission met this afternoon in a lengthy hearing to consider eight objections to various candidates' ballot petitions. It was the most challenges anyone could remember there being in a single year, and it included several major...
How Congressional Primaries Stack Up With New Fundraising Numbers
Federal candidates' campaign finance reports for 2017's 4th quarter were due this past week, and they once again give us a sense of where the money aspect of Iowa's congressional races stand. The dynamics of the 1st District primary largely stays the same, while the...
With Zach Wahls And More, Iowa Dems’ Future Is On The Ballot In 2018
Few elections have ever held more longterm consequences for a state than the upcoming 2018 races in Iowa. A few of the issues at stake: the survival of public unions and Planned Parenthood, the existence of mental healthcare services, and the state's own political...
Dr. John Paschen Seeks Right Prescription To Defeat Steve King In 2018
John Paschen, one of the Democratic candidates vying for the uphill fight against Congressman Steve King in 2018, already knows a good deal about overcoming skepticism. Born in the suburbs of Chicago, he moved with his family to Iowa as a teenager, settling down on a...
Steve King Says His Christmas Will Be Ruined Without Looser Gun Laws
Here’s a great Christmas gift idea from the GOP and Iowa’s nutty Republican Congressman Steve King. This week the House Judiciary Committee debated and passed a massive gun expansion bill, “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.” The Republicans want to give gun...