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As lawmakers return to their districts to face angry crowds organized, in part, by conservative groups looking to derail health reform legislation, the network of supporters who helped elect President Barack Obama are working to counter the opposition and make sure advocates turn out to town hall meetings.
Organizing for America, the successor to President Obama’s [...]

Despite some efforts to raise its profile here, a new poll indicates that the so-called ‘birther’ movement, which believes that President Barack Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president, has not gained much traction in America’s heartland.

Deloris Nissen, a 78-year-old retired nurses’ aide from Carroll, tells her hometown paper that she is selling her televisions because she has grown weary of seeing President Barack Obama.
Carroll Daily Times Herald reporter and Iowa Indy alum Douglas Burns interviewed Nissen after seeing an ad she placed in his paper telling readers she’s selling two [...]

Iowa Rep. Steve King is making the media rounds to share his belief that health care reform legislation favored by President Barack Obama will end up insuring nearly 6 million illegal immigrants.
However, health care reform advocates say King’s assertions are at best stretching the truth and at worst outright falsehoods.

Conspiracy theorists claiming President Barack Obama is not a United States citizen were granted an hour of drive-time radio Friday to lay out the “evidence” by Christian radio host Steve Deace.
Deace discussed the issue with Drew Zahn, editor of the conspiracy theory Web site World Net Daily, who said that while his cohorts have been [...]

A woman who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Law will soon be serving as senior policy advisor for Native American Affairs for the White House.

Laying out a list of the “power couples” within the new administration of President Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.,-based news site Politico points to a pair of Iowans as a couple to keep an eye on.
Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Patrick Dillon are no strangers to Iowa. Patrick, 31, was a prominent strategist for Gov. Chet Culver’s [...]

Despite a recent flap over a post on the social networking site Twitter criticizing the president for a comment on health care, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said he will keep on using the site to communicate with his constituents.
“I’ve tried to use every latest technology to keep in touch with constituents. Representative government is a [...]

The current state of health care delivery in America is so grim that U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin no longer uses the word “care” in reference to reform. “I don’t say that we need health care reform because you can’t reform something you don’t already have. We don’t have a health care system in America. We have a sick care system.”

An Iowa State Patrolman placed on paid leave in January after being accused of using state computers to forward an e-mail that included police mug shots of individuals wearing Barack Obama campaign t-shirts may soon be off the force.
Sgt. Rodney Hicok, 46 of Fort Dodge, was disciplined earlier this year for distributing an e-mail that [...]