Iowa Caucus

Guest op-ed from Bonnie Louise Brown, a member of the Iowa Democratic Party State Central Committee Right now in this country and in our home state of Iowa, we have a crisis. Hate crimes are on the rise. We have concentration camps on our southern border and Americans are strapped down by their student loan…

The impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump went public this week, a move presidential candidate Tom Steyer has called for since he first spoke out on impeachment in 2017. In his first Need To Impeach ad, on Oct. 21, 2017, Steyer said: “He has brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice at…

We’re starting to enter peak advertising season here in the Iowa Caucus, as messages from presidential candidates compete with holiday ads on the TV screens. Starting Line counts eight different Democratic contenders with spots on Iowa TV this week, most of which are running in the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids media markets. Let’s take…

We may only be 82 days away from the Iowa Caucus, but that’s still multiple political lifetimes in today’s media cycles. For a few months now, the top-four field has largely been set: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Lately, Warren and Buttigieg have topped recent polls, but no one is distancing…

Guest op-ed from Josh Smith, a law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law. I drove over 2,000 miles to work for Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in the summer of 2018. And more significant than that, in Montana’s 129 years of statehood, I am likely the first and only African-American to intern…

This past weekend saw what will likely be the largest caucus events for an individual candidate until the last several weeks before February 3. Bernie Sanders turned out crowds of over 2,000 at each of his events with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Iowa City. As Ocasio-Cortez noted at the Council Bluffs…

Guest op-ed from Terry Philips, former IDP Veterans Caucus Chair. I initially became interested in Mayor Pete’s campaign primarily because he was a fellow Navy Veteran. As I watched him talk to the reporter in French about the fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral, I felt the sense of pride of being an American, a…

Sen. Bernie Sanders has his sights set on being the 2020 election’s “climate candidate,” and Green New Deal lead sponsor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is helping him get there. After the Vermont Senator trailed behind competitors Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg for voters who would choose a candidate based on climate…

Sen. Cory Booker’s focus on helping down-ballot Democrats has certainly not gone unnoticed in Iowa, and a new round of endorsements out today for Booker come in part from newly-elected Iowans. Courtney Clarke, the mayor-elect of Waukee, and two city councilmember-elects from Urbandale and Ankeny top a new group of ten caucus-goers backing Booker. “Cory…

The commit-to-caucus cards starting piling up at Pete Buttigieg events across northern Iowa this past week, as caucus-goers saw the candidate at very well-attended events in rural counties. Now, a few days after his bus tour and performance at the Liberty and Justice Dinner, Buttigieg has a long list of new endorsements from across Iowa.…