Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
In the land of punditry, many people get things wrong without consequence, but few are praised for getting things right. One person who called the Mike Huckabee upset in the Ames Straw Poll correctly was the Rev. Bill Devlin, president of the non-partisan group Redeem the Vote, which works to register Christians between 18 and [...]
(Photo: Sign at a Ron Paul event in Ames, Iowa, August 10, 2007) If the questions Mitt Romney receives at campaign events in Iowa are any indication, there is a great deal of concern in the state at the level of the Republican base about the possibility of America, Canada, and Mexico merging into one [...]
Voters bused to the Ames Straw Poll by Americans for Fair Taxation helped give a boost to suprise second-place poll winner Mike Huckabee, according to both a spokesman for the group and Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman. Asked about things that might have made the difference for Huckabee, who did not bus voters to the [...]
John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis released this statement in response to McCain’s de minimis showing in the Ames Straw Poll: “Over the past eight months John McCain has met with Iowans across the state, built a broad base of support, and demonstrated why he is the most prepared candidate to lead America from day [...]
I just ran into Romney spokesman Tim Albrecht and he said he’s been told that there is a voting machine problem, and that this is what’s leading to the delay in announcing the results and protracting the process of counting the votes.
At 4:30 pm, half a dozen young people sat in a row at two tables outside Sen. Sam Brownback’s tent at on the grounds of Iowa State University, going through lists of potential supporters and making last minute get out the vote calls. “Are you close to Ames?” one sweaty organizer asked into his cell [...]
Because a straw poll itself is not an informal enough assessment of public opinion, the group Everyday America is holding an “Unofficial Straw Poll” just outside the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, feauring “results every hour,” based on the opinions of those who visit their table. As of 2:30 pm, the results were: Huckabee 36 % [...]
Last night, at the pre-Straw Poll “Ronstock” concert at the Bali Satay House in Ames, a Ron Paul volunteer played back a recording of competing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney joking about cheating in a State Fair popularity contest, stuffing the ballot box in Ames, and dodging questions across the state. Dudley Brown, executive director [...]
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