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Also endorses Harkin, Braley, Miller-Meeks, Schmett
John McCain picked up a relatively rare newspaper endorsement Saturday from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The eastern Iowa daily also backed incumbent Democrats Tom Harkin for U.S. Senate and Bruce Braley in the 1st Congressional District, but chose Republican challengers Mariannette Miller-Meeks over 2nd District Rep. Dave Loebsack and Kim [...]

The Des Moines Register gave Democratic Congressman Leonard Boswell about as weak an endorsement as possible in the third district race today:
After 12 years of light accomplishment and wrongheaded votes, Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell doesn’t deserve to return to Congress.
But his Republican challenger, Kim Schmett of Clive, also fails to make a compelling case that [...]

The Republican National Committee is pulling its money out of challenger races to shore up suddenly endangered incumbents, reports the Politico:
In 2006, veteran Republicans Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota, Jim Leach in Iowa and Jim Ryun in Kansas suddenly found themselves in tough reelection fights. By the time the party saw what was happening, it was [...]

Kim Schmett, the Republican nominee for Congress in Iowa’s Third District, has been keeping a low profile so far in his quest to unseat incumbent Rep. Leonard Boswell. In fact, he’s had practically no profile at all. But in a new ad posted on his campaign Web site, he finally gets the chance to debate [...]