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Bets on Gingrich rising in Iowa futures market

By | 11.09.11 | 11:39 am | More from The Iowa Independent

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s stock is up on the Iowa Electronic Markets, a real money futures market operated by the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.

Paul still leading TV ad buys in Iowa

By | 11.08.11 | 5:26 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

(Photo: Douglas Burns/Carroll Daily Times Herald)

Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to buy ads in the Des Moines network TV market, with spots scheduled to run through Nov. 13 at the local CBS affiliate.

GOP candidates are not spending much money in Iowa

By | 11.08.11 | 3:06 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Republican candidates for president are not spending much of their campaign war chests in Iowa, an analysis from The Huffington Post shows.

Women would be disproportionately affected by tax plans proposed by Cain, Perry, experts say

By | 11.07.11 | 12:47 pm

As campaign-finance filings come out from 2012 Republican presidential candidates, the records show women are not big-money donors for this year’s crop of hopefuls. Recent campaign-finance records evaluated by the Center for Responsive Politics reveal the median percentage of campaign cash over $200 from female donors to the GOP More…

Iowa 2012 GOP Presidential Power Rankings: Romney trails Paul, Cain

By | 11.07.11 | 11:36 am | More from The Iowa Independent

For the past eight months, a group of volunteer Iowa activists have been contributing to these Power Rankings and attempting to answer what GOP candidate is positioned to capture caucus gold if the event was tonight.

Dems point to support for ‘personhood’ as Romney’s downfall in Colorado

By | 11.04.11 | 5:55 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters, but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It’s a move that will surely doom his chances to win More…

Ron Paul continues to dominate ad buys in Iowa

By | 11.03.11 | 10:41 am | More from The Iowa Independent

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to dominate network TV in Iowa, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry delves into the ad war and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) falls behind.

Paul has ads scheduled to run through early November at KCCI and WHO More…

Quinnipiac poll: Democrats gaining ground while Obama no longer in negative territory

By | 11.02.11 | 10:57 am | More from The Iowa Independent

A poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University shows President Obama making slight gains to pull himself from negative territory.

In an earlier poll on Oct. 5, Obama was given a negative 41-55 percent split, but falls within the margin of error in today’s offering at 47-49 percent. When More…

GOPers offer varied support for alternative energy

By | 11.01.11 | 4:50 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Five GOP candidates for president offered very different assessments of the federal governments’ wind energy tax credit and renewable fuel standard during a forum Tuesday morning in Pella.

DNC chair accuses GOP of wanting the economy to fail

By | 11.01.11 | 3:46 pm | More from The Florida Independent

In an op-ed, Florida congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz writes that the GOP is hoping the economy will fail, giving the GOP an edge against President Obama in the upcoming national election.