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U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, cruised to re-election Tuesday, holding onto a decisive margin throughout the night.
King had 60 percent of the vote with 402 of 417 precincts reporting, a wide margin that will send him back to Washington for a fourth term and keep him very much politically alive for a potential run for [...]

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Fifth District Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler may be well behind U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, in fundraising, but the challenger expects big dividends from the strategic use of advertising in small and weekly newspapers, most notably with the insertion in the last few weeks of an 8-page “Congressional Voters Guide” in 75 papers in [...]

“John McCain, I won’t say he’s toast, but he’s rapidly approaching English muffin territory,” said U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, in remarks at the Moose Lodge in downtown Carroll before an audience of about 30 party activists.

DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver told the Iowa Independent that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s coattails are looking long enough to extend even into conservative western Iowa.
“I think this is the type of year where that is possible,” Culver said in an interview at Obama’s Friday rally. “It could be like 1964. We (Democrats) [...]

Months ago, there seemed to be more potential for Hubler to raise money over the Internet, using King’s famously controversial remarks to stoke up dollars from the many people King has offended in his three terms in Congress.

“Where we find ourselves in the market is directly accredited to Steve King’s philosophy,” Hubler said in Carroll.

“People are no longer confused. They are just angry as heck.”

“This is a very humbling moment for me,” Hubler said.  “I have been to a lot of J-J dinners,” but rarely as a guest, he said.  “And now I’m standing up here,” he continued.  “It is a humbling thing.”
Saying his life is “tied together” by service, Hubler recounted his past in the military, working for [...]

Aboard a nuclear submarine in the 1960s, Rob Hubler and his fellow crew members received word that war with the Soviet Union had started, that their arsenal was to be released on the enemy.

Veteran political analyst Stuart Rothenberg writes that it is “absurd” for the Democratic National Congressional Committee to place the race between U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Council Bluffs Democrat Rob Hubler on the “Races To Watch” list.
Included on the list are Josh Zeitz, running against Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and Rob Hubler, running against [...]