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U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told The Des Moines Register that he tried to get John McCain to ease up on the ethanol attacks and frame the debate in a different way that wouldn’t alienate farmers. King thinks McCain’s vocal opposition to ethanol subsidies played a role in the Arizona Republican’s poor performance in Iowa.

Former Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Democrat who was one of Hillary Clinton’s most outspoken advocates in the caucuses, and long-time former Congressman Jim Leach, a Republican who broke with his party to support Barack Obama, are both getting mentions in major national publications as potential selection for Secretary of Agriculture.
Obama is widely reported to be [...]

“We finally got a man who I think really showed some intelligence,” said Butch Heisterkamp, chairman of the Carroll County Democratic Party, as he reflected on President-elect Barack Obama’s local success.

Following his commanding re-election Tuesday U.S. Rep, Steve King, R-Iowa, told the Omaha World-Herald that the night was a bittersweet one as he retains concerns that President-elect Barack Obama ascendency to the highest office in the nation will embolden foreign terrorists to do harm to the United States.
In highly controversial remarks in the campaign season [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, cruised to re-election Tuesday, holding onto a decisive margin throughout the night.
King had 60 percent of the vote with 402 of 417 precincts reporting, a wide margin that will send him back to Washington for a fourth term and keep him very much politically alive for a potential run for [...]

CARROLL — One veteran Democratic pollwatcher here tells us this morning that she’s been to all four wards in the city of Carroll — the main voting sites in what is a bellwether county — and seen no Republican pollwatchers. The long-time activist is stunned at the absence.

CARROLL — With rich Catholic and Democratic traditions, but growing social conservative and evangelical demographics, Carroll County, the economic hub of west-central Iowa, can be considered something of a bellwether for the Hawkeye State in today’s election.
As of last Friday, Carroll County had 14,969 registered voters: 5,310 Democrats, 3,155 Republicans, 6,499 no party voters, and [...]

In just one week, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who represents a heavily rural swath of the nation with no major media market, or even an outlet that can claim to cover the full Fifth District, had his words excoriated by three of the biggest national liberal names: Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and Alan Colmes.
Not bad for [...]

CARROLL — After speaking at a get-out-the-vote  rally in Carroll Saturday, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, stood outside the Moose Lodge talking on his cell phone to a senate candidate thousands of miles away in, well, moose country.
Harkin told Iowa Independent that he was one of a few senators acting as a kind of a political “godfather” for Mark Begich, the [...]

As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.