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Iowa Starting Line Closes Out Our Best Year Yet

Iowa Starting Line Closes Out Our Best Year Yet

The clock is ticking down on the end of 2019, though here in the Starting Line office, we're mostly just concerned with who's covering what candidate this weekend. I thought it would be nice to take a moment to look back at the very exciting, transformative year we've...

Pete Buttigieg Shows No Signs Of Slowing Down In Iowa

Pete Buttigieg Shows No Signs Of Slowing Down In Iowa

Pete Buttigieg is barreling toward an Iowa Caucus victory, and there's not a damn thing anyone's tweets can do about it. The month of December has given the South Bend Mayor his biggest challenges yet, including intense media questions over his work at McKinsey,...

John Delaney To Make Final Small-Town Blitz Of Iowa

John Delaney To Make Final Small-Town Blitz Of Iowa

They're filling the gas tank back up in John Delaney's big blue RV for a final blitz across Iowa in the last month leading up to the caucus. Delaney and his team will embark upon a 40-stop tour in January, focusing their time in many tiny towns in rural counties as he...

The Iowa Counties That (Almost) No Candidates Go To

The Iowa Counties That (Almost) No Candidates Go To

The 99-county tour. It's been an ambitious goal for anyone looking to win over Iowa voters in every corner of the state. Candidates have completed it and love to talk about it, and it's become somewhat of a unicorn to chase while campaigning in the state. It's a great...

What Pete Buttigieg Wants Young Progressives To Know About Him

What Pete Buttigieg Wants Young Progressives To Know About Him

On Pete Buttigieg's first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate, during a bitterly cold day in February, he made a stop at Iowa State University in Ames to speak with a group of college students. Over forty young voters showed up, a good turnout for a then-unknown...

What Iowans Thought Of The Wine Cave Debate

What Iowans Thought Of The Wine Cave Debate

Yet another Democratic debate is in the books, the sixth one featuring several more contentious moments between the candidates that many expected to finally come. Elizabeth Warren faced off with Pete Buttigieg over fundraising strategies, while Amy Klobuchar got in...

Poll: Joni Ernst Under 50% For Reelection

Poll: Joni Ernst Under 50% For Reelection

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst faces a challenging path to her first reelection in 2020, according to a poll published yesterday. The first-term incumbent holds only a 47% to 41% lead over likely Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield. Ernst also has a 45% favorable and 43%...

Ep137: How Many Winners In The Caucus, Khizr Khan Interview

Ep137: How Many Winners In The Caucus, Khizr Khan Interview

Pat Rynard sits down with Des Moines Register Chief Political Reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel to talk about her article on whether new reporting from the Iowa Caucus could produce multiple winners. In the second half, Pat chats with Khizr Khan about endorsing...

Evans: The Questions I Would Like To Ask ‘Berk’

Evans: The Questions I Would Like To Ask ‘Berk’

Whenever a friend or relative dies, it’s not unusual to find ourselves dwelling on the conversations we wish had occurred or the questions that never got asked. That certainly was true with my parents, Noel and June, who left long before my brothers and I ran out of...

Pete Buttigieg Picks Up Two Iowa Legislator Endorsements

Pete Buttigieg Picks Up Two Iowa Legislator Endorsements

Pete Buttigieg added two more Iowa legislators to his endorsement column today, both of them from Des Moines' South Side. State Sen. Tony Bisignano and State Rep. Brian Meyer are announcing their backing of the South Bend Mayor today, adding two well-known legislators...

South Central Iowa Federation Of Labor Donates 6,500+ Meals

South Central Iowa Federation Of Labor Donates 6,500+ Meals

South Central Iowa Federation of Labor members volunteered to fill around 325 baskets of food, equal to about 6,500 individual meals, at the United Auto Workers Local 450 hall in Des Moines Friday morning. The food will be distributed to United Way agencies such as...

How Housing Became A Winning Issue In Local Iowa Races

How Housing Became A Winning Issue In Local Iowa Races

Several local races across Iowa have demonstrated to advocates that over time, housing issues have the potential to be winning campaign issues. Candidates in Urbandale, Iowa City and Ames won their bids for city council seats on platforms focused on affordable housing...

Basketball, Bowling And A Bus Tour With Andrew Yang

Basketball, Bowling And A Bus Tour With Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang recently kicked off his 23rd trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate with great news. He had made the December debate stage. "Just an hour ago, I became the seventh person to qualify for the December debates," said Yang, a New York entrepreneur, Tuesday...

Koch-Backed Groups Target Bernie Sanders’ GND Support

Koch-Backed Groups Target Bernie Sanders’ GND Support

The conservative energy non-profit that campaigned against President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection is now set on targeting the Green New Deal and 2020 Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders' advocacy for it. In an advertisement released on Facebook and Instagram near...

Castro Fails To Make His Case Well On Caucus Criticism

Castro Fails To Make His Case Well On Caucus Criticism

Julian Castro took his new campaign message of ending Iowa and New Hampshire's status as the first presidential nominating states directly to Iowa caucus-goers last night. It did not go very well. Castro wanted to focus in on racial diversity and access problems with...

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