During the Presidential debate, Donald Trump repeated his contention that massive job losses have been lost in Ohio and Michigan due to bad trade deals with Mexico and China. "Bigly" losses. His...
Far from both parties’ activist cores and the state political press, a Northeast Iowa legislative race might hold the key to which party controls the Iowa House next session. The Decorah-based...
Guest post from Jack Hatch on his upcoming book The Second Security: Fight Income Inequality By Creating Better Paying Jobs For Working Families No greater security exists for an Iowa family than...
New polling results suggest many millennials are shunning both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and embracing third party candidates. Bernie Sanders joined Clinton this week appealing to...
Hillary Clinton visits Iowa today, the day that early voting begins in the state. Her rally is at a plaza in downtown Des Moines that's just a stone's throw away from the Polk County Auditor's...
The book "Art of the Deal," co-authored by Tony Schwartz, made Donald Trump a household name and launched his presidential ambitions. It has been presented as a business memoir written by Trump....
As the Cedar River slowly raised foot-by-foot to flood levels these past few days, political campaigns in Eastern Iowa slowed to a halt. Iowa's largest river winds its way through many of this...
Guest post from Ruth Thompson, a very active Clinton volunteer I’ve observed something during this election cycle that I’ve never seen before. We have an amazing candidate for president,...
I watched the first 2012 debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the basement of a fellow campaign staffer's supporter housing in Cedar Rapids. Everyone was disappointed in...
While only a small handful of Iowa Senate races seem like pure toss-ups at this point, there's nearly a dozen Iowa House campaigns that could easily go either way. An unusually large number of...
