A guest post from Rose Clouston, the Director of Online Training at the National Democratic Training Committee. With a new Democrat announcing their presidential campaign every week, the primary election is shaping up to be a long, drawn-out process. To have any...
Congressman Dave Loebsack will retire after his current term comes to an end, reported the Quad Cities Times this afternoon. He has served in Congress since his 2006 election when he won in a surprise upset, and was Democrats' lone federally-elected member from...
Senator Kamala Harris is running for president, but an event of hers in Des Moines yesterday was focused on other candidates - women running or thinking of running for local offices. She spoke with a group of about 125 women at an Emerge Iowa house party, where she...
The Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard sits down with Beto O'Rourke during his recent Iowa trip to talk about his generational pitch, how he's adjusted to the media onslaught,...
Above photo via Joe Crimmings. Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is well-known for his energetic, non-stop campaigning style, and that was certainly on display during his ambitious Polk County schedule on Saturday. He held six house parties, spread out across...
Rallies and Q&A sessions with 2020 hopefuls, depending on the candidate, typically tend to skew like the Iowa electorate does: older. But with former Congressman Beto O’Rourke choosing Iowa State University as his first stop on his second swing through the...
Iowa will now have a bigger say in how the nation's infrastructure needs are addressed. Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer has been appointed to the role of Vice Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. That...
I conducted a fun little experiment yesterday. After noticing many people expressing frustration on political Twitter that Elizabeth Warren wasn't getting enough media coverage for her policy ideas, I wondered, are those same people sharing her policy proposals...
While Tom Steyer announced back in January that he would not make a presidential run in 2020, a poll going around Iowa raises new questions on whether he might be reconsidering that option. A Starting Line reader received a polling call yesterday afternoon in which...
Nine years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, there is much to celebrate regarding the progress made in American health care. The uninsured rate has been cut in half, insurers can no longer deny, drop, or limit the care you get because of a...
