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Sen. Sam Brownback, the Kansas social conservative now running for the Republican presidential nomination, decried the Iowa court ruling, likely to be stayed until a final determination by the Iowa Supreme Court can be made, allowing gays and lesbians to marry in Polk County. In a statement released by his campaign, he said:
“We should have [...]

Two Republican candidates talked about their approach to health care and cancer today in Cedar Rapids.  The event drew less than half the audience of the previous day’s Democratic forum, which was sponsored by Livestrong, the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

I spoke with one attendee, J. Michael Haskins of Iowa City, mostly about veterans’ health care.  He [...]

Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback’s campaign shut down his second Iowa office, opened in Ames on June 21, after a third-place finish in the Ames Straw Poll earlier this month.

The campaign continues to operate out of its lone Iowa office in West Des Moines.

Iowa campaign spokesman John Rankin was unavailable for comment; a receptionist said he [...]

A new Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday shows the top-three Democratic contenders are in a close race in Iowa, with a surprising 27 percent of voters declaring themselves “undecided” nearly seven months before the nation’s first presidential caucus.  On the Republican side, Arizona Sen. John McCain seems to be tanking, with just 6 percent of Republican [...]

Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback is probably known best as a conservative hard-liner on social issues, but the presidential candidate was touting his agricultural background during a visit to the World Pork Expo Friday.
Brownback is one of many candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president, but his Iowa communications aide, Billy Valentine, is quick to note [...]

[Commentary] Poll-topping John McCain and Rudy Giuliani should eye closely the Iowa movements of McCain’s lower-profile colleague in the U.S. Senate, Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas.
Brownback is a true believer social conservative, and a Christian who expands his scope of issues beyond abortion and homosexuality to matters of poverty, forced prostitution in foreign nations, fighting [...]