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Videos from Karl Rove’s appearance at the University of Iowa are below the fold, including part of Rove’s talk.

A Republican immigration task force recently made some suggestions in response to a state House bill (H.F. 2026) sponsored by Democratic representatives that would penalize corporate officers of companies that employ undocumented workers. The group, which included Senators Jeff Angelo of Creston, Paul McKinley of Chariton and Steve Kettering of Lake View, wants to add [...]

In Highlight Reel Part 1: Comparing Candidate Intros, we looked at some of the people who introduce the candidates.

In Highlight Reel Part 2: Comparing Candidate Endorsements, you can find more than a dozen candidate endorsements.

In this installment of the Highlight Reel, we’ll hear from the candidates talking about, well, other candidates. Sometimes candidates question each [...]

The crowd to see Mitt Romney at the Fuel and Nest Coffee Shop was spilling out the door and filling sidewalks on Sunday afternoon in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Among those stranded on the sidewalk outside the event was Rollie Ostrander. The Solon resident said he’d seen a few candidates, including some Democrats and, except for Hillary [...]

Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson was in Washington, Iowa on Saturday.

State Rep. Sandy Greiner of District 89 is a Thompson supporter. She told the Iowa Independent that she’s met all the candidates except for Rudy Giuliani.  She and other interested voters from her community were able to meet with Thompson and others behind closed doors [...]

Presidential candidate Fred Thompson worked the recent assassination of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto into his stump speech at an event in Washington, Iowa on Saturday. He said  the tragic event should remind the U.S. of “the nature of the conflict we’re engaged in,” and that, “Iraq and Afghanistan are a part of that [...]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has taken some criticism for planting questions at her events recently. One question that definitely wasn’t planted was asked on Monday night in Coralville at an event held in the Antique Car Museum of Iowa.

The questioner, David Dickey, said that although he liked Clinton and would vote for her in [...]

About 25 people met on Sunday in Iowa City to discuss and develop environmental policies for their precinct caucuses. They drafted “planks” (also called platforms) for energy policy, air quality, urban growth boundaries and in-fill development.  Some of the participants identified themselves as being part of a presidential campaign, others were concerned about public health [...]

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney gave a presentation in Muscatine on Thursday that included a video display with graphs, statistics and bullet points. His event was billed as a talk on his “Strategy for a Stronger America: Strengthening America’s Economy.” He talked and explained slides that gave statistical projections on subjects including taxes, immigration and U.S. [...]

About 150 people listened and spoke with another visitor to Iowa making the presidential rounds in the final days before the caucuses.

One of those people, Amanda Gott of Muscatine, attended Mitt Romney’s event on Thursday morning at the Hotel Muscatine with questions on her mind.

She asked the former Massachusetts governor about his [...]