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Veteran Iowa journalist Chuck Offenburger, formerly with The Des Moines Register and now managing his own Web site, said the effort to convince former Gov. Terry Branstad to re-enter politics and run for a fifth term hurts the state GOP and damages progress the party’s new leadership has accomplished.
Last month, Offenburger called on Branstad, whom [...]

So far, there are five confirmed candidates in the Republican gubernatorial field, but most of the focus is going to a man who is not in the race.

Veteran Iowa journalist Chuck Offenburger, formerly with The Des Moines Register and now managing his own Web site, has publicly endorsed Ames businessman Matt Randall in the race to lead the Republican Party of Iowa.
It’s a good field of candidates for the chairperson position, but I think there’s a clear choice here. I believe the [...]

 
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.

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.

ANALYSIS: With tonight’s vice presidential debate hours away, one rural analyst sees it as a “high-wire act” for GOP candidate Sarah Palin, while another views it as an opportunity for the Alaska governor to escape from what he believes is an unfair media-driven caricature of her.

Reports of wicked treatment of animals at a hog farm outside of Bayard are making international news in the wake of an Associated Press story that relies on undercover video showing workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming pigs on floors and jamming objects into their bodies.
One veteran chronicler of Iowa life, Chuck Offenburger, lives [...]

Opportunities abound, rural chronicler says. But he adds that Obama could be snared in the politics of abortion.

Former long-time Des Moines Register “Iowa Boy” columnist Chuck Offenburger, a writer who understands small towns and their people as well as any Hawkeye Stater, says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama can “do very well with rural voters” [...]

Veteran Iowa journalist and author Chuck Offenbuger makes the case for a Mitt Romney presidency in a column posted on the Web site, Offenburger.com. In his review of the presidential candidates, Offenburger sees Romney’s Mormon faith as a potential strength, a striking departure from conventional political pundit wisdom.

Offenburger, a Republican, is the former long-time “Iowa [...]