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Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro said during a taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” that he supports some changes to Iowa’s caucus system to quiet criticisms and make it more accessible.
I think the caucuses are fantastic, they’re great for our state, they work, we’re the most informed voters in the country but I [...]

The new deputy communications director for the Fred Thompson campaign suggested last month on a prominent political website that America might be better off if Iowa didn’t play host to the first-in-the-nation caucus.

Karen Hanretty wrote on The Hill’s Political Pundit blog that the move would help to end expensive ethanol subsidies and would save the [...]

Sen. John McCain was in Gladbrook, Iowa, Sunday evening campaigning at a house party.  He spoke on the lawn at the home of Lynn and Claire Handorf and then took questions from the audience and press.

Regarding last week’s Polk County ruling that allowed at least one gay couple to marry in Des Moines, McCain [...]

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 [...]

Four Democratic candidates spoke and took questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Lance Armstrong, video questions from the web, and cancer survivors across the country in Cedar Rapids today.  The event was billed as making the candidates “Answer to cancer.”

Cancer survivors were in attendance, and the audience in general was enthusiastically supportive of each promise of [...]