Former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 Iowa Caucus winner Mike Huckabee will grace Saturday’s straw poll in Ames, but not in his capacity as a known politician.
Another potential presidential candidate has confirmed what his role will be in the 2012 election — uninvolved, at least personally.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he intends to sit out the 2012 presidential election.
Gov. Terry Branstad indicated he wants to be a “good host” during the 2012 GOP presidential contest and, therefore, is unlikely to endorse a candidate in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
“I have not ruled out the possibility, but I think it’s probably still unlikely that I’m More…
In the fifth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists take note of debate performances while continuing to search for consensus on which of the potential candidates will lead the pack.
The panelists again take note of a wide field, commenting on or ranking 13 potential More…
The first GOP presidential primary debate is behind us. Fox News hosted the event in South Carolina last night. It featured five second-tier candidates, and the news is that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty didn’t lose and that Herman Cain, the Georgia political figure, motivational speaker and former CEO of More…
Republicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory. Serious Republican strategists will be watching More…
An Ohio anti-abortion-rights bill that would outlaw terminating a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat can be detected is gaining momentum, if its newest group of supporters is any indication. Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich have joined their fellow presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee in throwing their weight behind the More…
Last week, a Rasmussen poll showed that Donald Trump was riding the birther conspiracy theory wave in becoming the Republican Party’s unlikely frontrunner for the 2012 presidential nomination. But a new survey seems to indicate that the 19-percent support Trump has among likely Republican primary voters is just about More…
Life Always, the anti-abortion group responsible for erecting billboards all over the country accusing Planned Parenthood of having racially motivated aims, is being sued by the mother of the young girl featured on the controversial billboards.
In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured. More…
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