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.
Citizens United, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., is making independent expenditures in Senate District 18 just days before a Nov. 8 special election to decide the balance of power in the Iowa Senate.
This weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention failed to draw many of the GOP candidates invited to participate: Out of the eight GOP presidential candidates, only Rick Santorum showed up to speak.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo) is calling for an extension of the renewable energy production tax credit, joining U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) in introducing a bill to keep the credit through 2016.
The wind energy industry employs about 3,000 people in Iowa More…
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…
Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president.
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…
With 10 weeks to go before the Jan. 3, 2012 Iowa Caucuses, ad sales at the state’s largest network TV station remain slow, with just three Republican presidential candidates buying airtime so far.
And the largest purchaser of ads at KCCI, the local CBS affiliate in Des Moines, isn’t even More…
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to steal the show Saturday evening at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, focusing mostly on economics as several other GOP hopefuls tried to convince the social conservative crowd they have the strongest stances against abortion and More…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum went on the attack at an Iowa social conservative event Saturday evening, each trying to convince the crowd they have the strongest stance against abortion and same-sex marriage.
The three – along with More…
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