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A little more than half of Americans believe health care reform would do more harm than good, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Wednesday.
The national phone survey of 772 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent, found that 52 percent believe government action would do more harm [...]

Tuesday’s election results should be greeted with happiness for Republicans but they should not be seen as a public repudiation of President Obama, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning.
“I don’t think it’s a referendum on Obama,” the Republican lawmaker said in a conference call with reporters. “I think it’s a — it’s a referendum [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King has no plans to run for president, but since he never had intentions to run for Congress, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a 2012 campaign.
The Kiron Republican told Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV that he wants to be a part of the national debate over how to “refurbish [...]

An option on the Web site of the Department of Health and Human Services that allows users to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his efforts towards health care reform should result in a formal investigation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley told the agency’s leader in a letter.

Speaking to members of an anti-immigration group over the weekend, GOP gubernatorial candidate Christian Fong made efforts to compare the actions of Chinese communists in the mid-20th Century to those of President Barack Obama.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley would not support a health care reform bill that contains individual mandates, regardless of what other compromises are included.

But critics contend that Grassley seemed to support the idea throughout the summer, and his newfound opposition is evidence that he is simply trying to obstruct health care reform.

“The more we looked into it, it just seemed like these allegations may have been unfair,” Dr. Christopher R. Martin said. “[The allegations] were happening in the mainstream media, but it seemed like they may have been coming from more conservative sources.”

In a letter to congressional colleagues, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Kiron is asking for support for South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson after his “You lie!” outburst during a recent presidential address.

Though President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren today would have likely generated some controversy no matter when it had been scheduled, the White House seemed to pick a particularly bad day for it, at least for Iowans.
As Obama delivered his live address today, hundreds of school board members and candidates were trying to win elections [...]

Moderate Republican Doug Gross has released another 2010 gubernatorial campaign poll through his group, the Iowa First Foundation.
Gross, who served as a top aide to former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and was his party’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee, has been releasing the results of his latest round of surveys, conducted July 23-26, this week. Today, he [...]