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The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth sat down with Minnesota’s controversial Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann Tuesday, and when talk turned to the 2012 presidential campaign she offered up a name that hasn’t surfaced as a potential contender: Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron.

In a phone interview with the Iowa Independent conducted before the announcement of her new job, Jackie Norris talked about what it was like to be a part of the historic campaign that elected America’s first black president, what lessons can be learned from the organization and what the future may hold for the political couple who got engaged at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

A new robocall in Iowa and several battleground states from the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain uses a quote from Democrat Barack Obama’s former rival for his party’s nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton.
In the recording, Clinton praises McCain and criticizes Obama on the subject of experience. The former first lady was quoted when she [...]

Democrat Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican John McCain in Iowa according to the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Obama, an Illinois senator, was the choice of 54 percent of likely voters, while McCain, an Arizona senator, was the choice of 37 percent.
The poll of 814 likely voters, taken Tuesday through Friday by [...]

Returning to where it all began for his presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama urged a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines today to keep working for the last four days of the campaign to take back the White House.

ANALYSIS: With only days left before voters head to the polls to choose the next president, both major-party candidates are still spending time and money in Iowa, but the state was much more hotly contested four years ago.

The details for Friday’s Iowa visit by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama have been set. The Illinois senator will speak around 11:30 a.m. at Western Gateway Park, between 12th and 13th Streets, Grand Avenue and Locust Street in downtown Des Moines.
The event is free and open to the public.  Tickets are not required, but an [...]

Profiling the ground game of each campaign here in Iowa, the Times newspaper in London discovered that Republican John McCain has had to hire “mercenaries” to compete with Democrat Barack Obama.
What’s worse is that the pair of canvassers the paper talked to were not the best spokespeople for the campaign.

Tired of what it views as the oversimplification of the presidential election, the Quad-City Times has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama.
Boiling the election down to a battle between “experience or change” doesn’t do this historic vote justice, the paper said, and those words don’t begin to cover all requirements for the next president.

Citing his military experience and “more than a quarter century of accomplished service in the United States House and Senate,” the Sioux City Journal today endorsed Republican John McCain.
The country faces many problems, The Journal wrote, “from a financial meltown, to the war on terror, to health care, to Social Security, to energy, to immigration, [...]