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Jacob Nieuwsma is a Linn County co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign and a co-chairman of the Linn-Mar Teenage Republicans at Linn-Mar High School.  He was at Giuliani’s town hall meeting in Dows Theater at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

After winter break, Linn-Mar High School students return to classes on Jan. 3, so Nieuwsma [...]

After being introduced by former Cedar Rapids mayor Paul Pate, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke and took questions at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday night. 

Pate is the state chair for Giuliani’s campaign in Iowa.

While answering questions from the audience, Giuliani gave an interpretation of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) [...]

Former state Sen. Maggie Tinsman is pro-choice and also one of four state co-chairs for Rudy Giuliani’s Iowa campaign. 

She said that it wasn’t just his “phenomenal” response to 9/11 that attracted her to Giuliani.  Like her, Giuliani is pro-choice but “against abortion.”  According to Tinsman, Giuliani “doesn’t think the government should be involved with people’s [...]

Rudy Giuliani spoke before a mostly collegiate crowd of about 500 at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City on Wednesday.

One of those students, Jimmy Centers, introduced the man he says will be the next president.

Centers is the chairman of Students for Giuliani on the University of Iowa campus.  He said that Rudy Giuliani is [...]

At least two of Iowa’s former governors are being bipartisan in their attacks on the personal life of GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

Speaking during a television interview last night, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign co-chairman in Iowa, raised the issue of Giuliani’s three marriages. Vilsack went further, getting into speculation about [...]

One of Iowa’s most well-known writers, Chuck Offenburger, a Republican, has an insightul piece on the straw poll on his Web site in which he makes the case that no members of his party in Iowa should vote for John McCain, Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson because they skipped the festivities in Ames last Saturday.

“As [...]

Polk County G.O.P. Chair and blogger Ted Sporer has a sharp run-down on the winners and losers of Saturday’s straw poll in Ames over on his site. Most intriguing is his report of growing hostility to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the part of potential caucus-goers:
By his absence, Rudy Giuliani was the biggest [...]

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 [...]

Many observers of American politics complain that the media, folks like me, turn elections into horse races with stories about who's up and who's down.
We handicap rather than inform, say these detractors.
Well, with a wonkish track record of allowing candidates columns and columns of inches to get into specific proposals — to the point where [...]

[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 [...]