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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 [...]

LeMars — More than 120 northwest Iowans Saturday morning filled a modern banquet hall attached to a LeMars golf course clubhouse to hear U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., make the case that the Republican Party has lost its way on fiscal discipline and go toe to toe with audience members who believe his support of [...]

A new batch of American Research Group polls shows John McCain ahead in all 3 of the early primary states.

Iowa: McCain 25%, Giuliani 23%, Romney 16%
New Hampshire: McCain 30%, Romney 23%, Giuliani 21%
South Carolina: McCain 32%, Giuliani 23%, Thompson 13%, Romney 10%

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, once seen as more maverick than James Garner himself, is again burnishing those credentials with great peril to his political fortunes in Iowa.
McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, unabashedly supports an immigration reform package that many conservatives in Iowa believe smacks of amnesty.
In a conference call just minutes ago with [...]

 With ethanol plants dotting the western Iowa countryside, and many farmers and investors hitched to the success of the facilitties, GOP presidential candidate John McCain's comments this morning on "Meet The Press" are worth examining.
He directly says in the interview that he believes nuclear power is a better solution than ethanol. McCain also sought to [...]

[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 [...]