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Please, Bobby! End the Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis!
Will Bower | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
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Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."
Proposal For 2012 Primaries
Will Bower | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
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The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.
October car/truck sales reports - Fuel for Obama campaign
Steve Parker | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
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This Monday, the new car and truck sales reports for the month of October will be announced, and are expected to be the worst in 25-or-more years. T...
Virginia=Win; North Carolina=Landslide
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
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Unless something gargantuanly unexpected happens, if they call Virginia for Obama, you will know at that moment that he is the next President of the United States.
This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift
Michael Hughes | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home
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As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.
McCain: They Don't Like Him, They Really Don't Like Him
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
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The expectations McCain brought to the race were impossibly high to fulfill, thanks to decades of media cheerleading and his ability to believe in his own hype.
Obama and Democrats Fighting Hard on GOP Turf
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
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All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?
Obama-Biden: A Match Made In Iowa
Beverly Davis | Posted 08.23.2008 | Home
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Obama's decision is no surprise to those of us who witnessed how well the Biden and Obama camps worked together during the Iowa caucuses. Biden's many supporters there are jumping for joy.
Rubber Sidewalk Installed In Iowa Town To Prevent Keg Damage
AP | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home
AMES, Iowa — A sidewalk project means there may be a little bounce to the beer kegs instead of dings in the pavement when delivery trucks unload...
Worker Abuse At Nation's Biggest Kosher Slaughterhouse Prompts Ethics Debate
AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
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NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...
McCain's Problem with White Voters
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
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It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
How to Perform a Citizen's Arrest of A Bush Administration Official
Nathan Robinson | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
What the four Iowans who tried to arrest Karl Rove did is courageous, and is exactly how we should use the citizen arrest power.
Unity: Not Exactly Woodstock '69, But Close
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
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It's the season premiere 2008 general election campaign. The music will be blaring, the crowd jumping, the loudspeakers booming. But the real story is that Democratic "unity" is well under way.
The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green
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The Army Corps has known for some time that the levee systems needed restructuring. It appears that rather than improving them, they chose to hire PR firms to help with crisis communications.
On the Ground: Disaster Flood Engineering
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green
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With the epic dimensions of this flood and the scope of infrastructure failures, how can the Army Corps of Engineers say to the devastated people that they had better get busy and "top the levees?"
Flooding Closes Bridges Between Iowa, Illinois
AP | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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GULFPORT, Ill. — The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee Tuesday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopt...
Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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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.
"Elite" Obama on the Front Lines--McCain AWOL
Paul Abrams | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
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Obama is on the front lines of the flood, helping residents clean up and start over. Where is McCain in this effort? Is he pitching in to help? Or is he off to another party at the Bush "ranch" in his wife's jet?
Receding Cedar Rapids Floods Revealing 'Incredible Destruction'
AP | ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town f...
Dear President, From Postville
Sally Kohn | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
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Postville, Iowa is a half-way house for the American dream, a dream deferred for many. And it's a microcosm of the issues facing our next President.
Source Asks "What is the Real Water Policy of the United States?"
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
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It is easy to blame nature, but what or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed the city of New Orleans to be ruined?
No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
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Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.
Iowa Republican Change Candidate
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
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"Personally, I think the sales gas tax holiday being proposed is like peeing your pants on a cold winter's day: It feels nice and warm for a little while, but very soon begins to feel quite cold."
Interview With Political Science Professor Kenneth Janda
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
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Last Thanksgiving, I took a vacation from the blog and (while I was gone) I ran a series of speech transcripts from all eight of the Democratic candid...
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