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Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Stewart Iverson, this week, announced the appointment of two campaign veterans to key posts within the party.

Joining the RPI are Caleb Hunter, who will run the day-to-day operations of the party as executive director, and Tim Albrecht, who will serve as communications director.

Hunter replaces former executive director Chuck Laudner, who [...]

Almost 50 people gathered at the University of Iowa on Friday to discuss the two things you’re not supposed to talk about in polite company: religion and politics.

Political science professor Cary Covington’s presentation on “God Talk on the Campaign Trail” outlined how he sees the pendulum of religious favor swinging back to Democratic presidential candidates, [...]

Presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul are among the Republicans who plan to be in Black Hawk County on Thursday night to woo voters in one of the state’s new super caucuses.

Organizers say 1,500 voters from 63 precincts across Black Hawk County are expected at the caucus. It provides an unusual opportunity for Republican [...]

Most of the time, when a candidate is introduced before a stump speech, the introduction is a chance to hear from someone respected who has been brought in by the campaign to make an appeal.

Sometimes the warm-up speech is short and sweet, Hillary Clinton often had a local organizer read a few words, but sometimes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Responding to a question in Washington, Ia., former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney downplayed the remarks of a national co-chairman of his presidential campaign who had stated that Iowa is where “they pick corn” not presidents.

Romney noted that he has “made more visits to Iowa than any other candidate.”

The head of the Republican Party of Iowa said Saturday that Mitt Romney was wrongly blamed for causing the cancellation of a live debate scheduled to air on the Fox News Network on December 4.

State Chairman Ray Hoffmann said in a brief statement that, in fact, several Republican candidates had scheduling conflicts which caused the [...]

Mike Huckabee’s surging but cash-hungry bid to win the Iowa Republican Caucus likely will get a boost in coming weeks when he begins running television commercials in the state. He joins a growing list of candidates, including fellow Republicans Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul, who are taking to the airwaves for the first time with [...]

Ignoring the relatively high concentration of Hispanic people in Marshalltown, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a crowd of almost 200 there Friday that “you probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally” in Iowa.

Marshalltown, which is home to a meatpacking plant operated by Swift and Co., was at the epicenter of a nationwide string [...]