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Fifth District Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler may be well behind U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, in fundraising, but the challenger expects big dividends from the strategic use of advertising in small and weekly newspapers, most notably with the insertion in the last few weeks of an 8-page “Congressional Voters Guide” in 75 papers in [...]

“John McCain, I won’t say he’s toast, but he’s rapidly approaching English muffin territory,” said U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, in remarks at the Moose Lodge in downtown Carroll before an audience of about 30 party activists.

DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver told the Iowa Independent that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s coattails are looking long enough to extend even into conservative western Iowa.
“I think this is the type of year where that is possible,” Culver said in an interview at Obama’s Friday rally. “It could be like 1964. We (Democrats) [...]

Veteran Iowa journalist Chuck Offenburger, formerly with The Des Moines Register and now managing his own Web site, Offenburger.com, has long used Sam’s Barber Shop in Aububon as a barometer for politics and other Iowa issues.
With the election only days away, Offenburger has found good news for the Democrats at Sam’s.

Saying he is “uneasy” about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s background, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking in Spencer said a baby being groomed for national leadership should grow up like George W. Bush, not Obama.

Months ago, there seemed to be more potential for Hubler to raise money over the Internet, using King’s famously controversial remarks to stoke up dollars from the many people King has offended in his three terms in Congress.

MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann Tuesday night said U.S. Rep. Steve King’s charge in Sioux City on Saturday that America would slip into a “totalitarian dictatorship” under an Obama administration revealed the Iowa Republican to be among the “least stable” members of Congress.

Ron Olson, 67, born in Carroll and raised in Manilla, is a primary lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm that American Lawyer magazine just ranked top in the nation.

SIOUX CITY — Warming up a crowd in Sioux City this morning for GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, U.S. Rep. Steve King said Republicans are not going far enough to paint Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as the purveyor of a socialist agenda.

Sarah Palin kept the gloves on for some of her full-fisted challenges to Barack Obama’s patriotism, but she threw them nonetheless.