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Nine presidential tickets is about average for Iowa in recent presidential cycles. The most crowded ballot was in 1992 with 14 candidates.

Democrat-turned-independent candidate William Meyers, who hoped to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Latham in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, told the Iowa Independent yesterday that his name would not appear on the ballot this November.
But he said it is not for lack of signed petitions.  Those, he said, he “surrendered” to “Democratic leaders.”
Nor is it for lack [...]

As the first week of filing ended, only one presidential ticket and two state legislative candidates had turned nomination petitions in to the Secretary of State’s office.

A statewide radio ad focusing on his plans to lower gas and energy prices was released today by the campaign of incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Latham.
The 60-second ad, which is the first mass media buy of the 2008 4th District congressional campaign, discusses Latham’s view that Congress needs to work immediately to increase domestic energy [...]

The filing period for third party and independent candidates trying to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot begins Monday, and at least two independent congressional candidates could make the cut.

Independent Congressional candidate William Meyers, who lost his district’s Democratic primary last month, has launched a new Web site he hopes will become the focal point for the movement to repeal the recently enacted statewide smoking ban. The site attacks most Democrats in both chambers of the state legislature.

Independent congressional candidate William Meyers said a meeting this morning with a member of the Democratic Party’s 4th District Central Committee has not swayed him to give up his campaign.

Democrats from around the state said William Meyers’ Independent run for the 4th District Congressional seat will have little or no impact on the party’s chances of defeating incumbent Republican Tom Latham in November.

William Meyers, a former Marine who came in third out of four candidates Tuesday in the Democratic 4th Congressional District primary, will run as an Independent this fall against Democrat Becky Greenwald and Republican incumbent Tom Latham.
Meyers said he began gathering the 300 signatures he needed to get his name on the ballot for [...]

In a race that never garnered much attention, 4th District Democrats overwhelming chose Becky Greenwald, of Perry, to take on seven-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Latham this fall.

With 50.9 percent of the vote, Greenwald easily outpaced her three rivals for the nomination. Greenwald received 80 percent of the vote in Dallas County, where she serves [...]