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Final results of Iowa caucuses probably won’t matter, even if Santorum wins
DES MOINES, Iowa — The eyes of the political world have moved beyond Iowa, and even if final results of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses produce a different winner next week, it won’t matter, according to several political insiders and analysts. “Iowa doesn’t make the difference anymore now this year. Iowa is done. It’s finished,” said [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — As a businessman, David Greenspon owns three large buildings in Urbandale and Clive and says he pays more than $250,000 a year in property taxes. “They’re expensive,” said Greenspon, president of Competitive Edge, Inc. in Urbandale which manufactures promotional products. “When you pay a lot of tax, somebody else is paying it. It’s going [...]
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — When Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday that she was ending her bid for president, some Iowa evangelical voters spent little time thinking about whom they would support next. “I’m not feeling gloomy and defeated,” the Rev. Bill Tvedt of Jubilee Family Church in Oskaloosa told IowaPolitics.com. “I’m the [...]
Continue reading …Hundreds pack candidate events on caucus eve; Romney brushes off Occupy protesters
January 3, 2012 No Comment
CLIVE, Iowa — Hundreds of people jam-packed candidate events in hotels, businesses and restaurants for a final glimpse of the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls in the hours leading up to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. About 600 people filled Competitive Edge in Clive, an advertising specialty manufacturing company that makes signs, for a late-night, caucus-eve rally with [...]
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul are poised to place first and second, respectively, in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, according to most polls and pundits. But wild fluctuations in the 2012 Iowa caucus campaign have left third place up for grabs. Political insiders and analysts warned in the weeks [...]
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MAQUOKETA, Iowa — Undecided Republican caucusgoer Mel Welter appreciates Rick Perry’s “Washington outsider” brand and wants the Texas governor to bring Lone Star State solutions for job growth and balanced budgets to the White House. The farmer and seed business owner from Cascade also is pleased with Perry’s plan to turn Congress into a part-time [...]
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GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa — Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann called Iowans a “forward-looking people” ready for a female president, despite rejection of her candidacy from some evangelical leaders. “Iowa’s already shown that the United States is ready for a female president, because I won the Iowa Straw Poll,” Bachmann said Monday at a stop on [...]
Continue reading …IOWA CITY, Iowa — Three Republican presidential hopefuls clawing for top-three Iowa caucus finishes assailed Newt Gingrich from the right, during a two-hour, seven-candidate debate Thursday night in staunchly Republican western Iowa. A contentious question about partial-birth abortion provoked Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to lash out at opponent Michele [...]
Continue reading …DES MOINES, Iowa — The way former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich sees it, the Iowa caucuses will be a contest among himself, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul. “You’ve got Romney’s money, Ron Paul’s intense supporters and my supporters, and I think it’s a three-way race right now,” Gingrich [...]
Continue reading …IOWA CITY — The popularity of career politician and former U.S.. House Speaker Newt Gingrich with Iowa’s tea party supporters baffles members of his Republican presidential campaign team. “Here’s a person that’s been in Washington most of his adult life, so why is he appealing to that crowd?” asked Gingrich’s Iowa senior policy adviser, state [...]
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