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If you are rich or your child is a star athlete, you might not worry about paying for college. But the vast majority of Iowa families make big sacrifi...
If you are rich or your child is a star athlete, you might not worry about paying for college. But the vast majority of Iowa families make big sacrifi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 01.01.2012
On New Year's Eve exactly four years ago, the Des Moines Register released its final poll of Iowa caucus-goers and turned the political world upside d...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.30.2011
NEW YORK -- When Craig Robinson launched The Iowa Republican in March 2009, he hoped to bring his decade's worth of Republican campaign and fundraisin...
Posted 12.18.2011
The Des Moines Register, Iowa's biggest and most influential newspaper, announced that it would endorse Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for pres...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.15.2011
Newt Gingrich believes people can choose to be straight, just like they can "choose to be celibate." During an interview with the Des Moines Regist...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2011
WASHINGTON -- Eighteen years after he led Republicans to an unexpected takeover of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich looks increasingly pois...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 12.29.2011
The latest results from the highly respected and much anticipated Des Moines Register Iowa Poll are in, and they show the duo of Herman Cain and Mitt ...
Posted 11.30.2011
Former House Speaker and struggling presidential candidate Newt Gingrich sure has a way with words. During a campaign event in Iowa Friday, Gingri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 10.17.2011
NEW YORK -- While Texas Gov. Rick Perry has grabbed headlines (and the spotlight) from his Republican rivals all week, members of the Texas press corp...
The Des Moines Register | Jennifer Jacobs | Posted 10.06.2011
The Des Moines Register objected Friday to the Tim Pawlenty campaign sending an email blast with a portion of a front-page profile about the candidate...
David Helfenbein | Posted 08.26.2011
The first Des Moines Register Poll was released on June 25 and it really does matter; this is the first substantive poll of the race. Why? The poll is...
Huffington Post | Matt Vasilogambros | Posted 05.25.2011
A Drake University student has been charged with sexually assaulting a fraternity brother, according to a Des Moines police report. Drake senior A...
Trish Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011
Tea Party "Movement" Biggest Mass Deception Since WMDs by Trish Nelson Remember, back in April when we said on Blog for Iowa that the tea party movem...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011
Brokaw's bland evasiveness on Meet the Press does not bode well for what we can expect from his turn as moderator at this Tuesday's debate.
David Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
We all remember George W. Bush's quip, but it appears that Sen. John McCain has similar aspirations.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 05.25.2011
It looks like the Angry McCain meme is going mainstream: During tonight's broadcast, Inside Edition played excerpts from John McCain's testy editorial...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday, John McCain dismissed the notion that there was dissension among conservatives over his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president. "Really,"...
John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to Iowa, and the last Dem debate before the Iowa caucus. Today: Hillary's Last Stand. Can she recover from the Obama onslaught? Can she recover from Bill on the campaign trail? CAN SHE RECOVER FROM OPRAH?
Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011
In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
The following piece was produced by HuffPost's OffTheBus. Des Moines -- Hillary Clinton won the Des Moines Register endorsement over the weekend, b...
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
The following piece was produced by HuffPost's OffTheBus. Des Moines, Iowa---The Des Moines Register's Editorial Board handed their plumb endorsem...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, won the endorsements of both the Boston Globe and the Des Moines Register on Sunday morning; two key newspapers affecting two ...
Huffingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain picked up key early state endorsements Saturday evening as the clock ticks down to the Iowa Caucuses on ...
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011
Broadly speaking, the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination are offering similar policy proposals -- the dispute over health care mandates ...
New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 05.25.2011
The other day, as his sport utility vehicle idled outside, former President Bill Clinton held forth on a sofa in the publisher's suite at The Des Moin...
Posted 04.18.2012