Longtime Democratic State Senator Dick Dearden will be retiring next year and not running for re-election in 2016. Democrats looking to succeed the Senator in Des Moines' East Side/Pleasant Hill...
When Miyoko Hikiji's friends first suggested to her that she run for office, she was hesitant. Am I really qualified for this? Would I be prepared? Those were the questions that went through her...
Pour one out for Scotty boy, his all-too-brief campaign has come to an end. After Scott Walker's surprising announcement on Monday that he's quitting the race, many political observers are asking...
(Guest Post from Hector Salamanca, an immigration activist who attends nearly every Iowa Caucus campaign event) Happy national Hispanic Heritage month! It has been quite the presidential campaign...
It's different this time. That must have been the thought going through Hillary Clinton's mind as her campaign van crossed the border into Iowa days after her official announcement in April. It...
Influential Democrats seem to increasingly see Jim Mowrer as the most formidable candidate to take on freshman Republican Congressman David Young in the 3rd District. His campaign is releasing a...
It can be hard at times during the non-stop 2016 coverage to find reliable, well-informed analysis of what's actually going on inside the campaigns and the mood of the voters. This year has...
It was an exercise in endurance slogging through the three-hour GOP debate last night, but no one could possibly look away. The Republican debates this year have quickly become must-watch TV,...
About 15 minutes before the main Republican debate on CNN last night I got a poll call testing various messaging points on both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They only said it was from a...
It was a relatively ho-hum affair for most of President Barack Obama's visit to North High School in Des Moines, where he briefly laid out new college affordability proposals before taking...
