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Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has kicked off her 2010 campaign for the chance to take on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley with a new Web video released Monday.

The Associated Press broke the news Friday morning that an aide close to Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin confirms she will formally announce she will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate next week.
The aide also confirms she will file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission next week.

Iowa’s former first lady Christie Vilsack will not run for Senate as a Democrat in 2010.

Though Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin’s candidacy against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is only beginning, two other Democrats who are already campaigning across the state had harsh words to say about her when asked.

Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has confirmed she will “more likely than not” enter the Democratic primary in hopes of unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Conlin told Des Moines Register reporter Tom Beaumont that it was Grassley’s inflammatory rhetoric this summer during the debate over health care reform that first pushed her towards [...]

Incumbent Democratic Gov. Chet Culver would lose to former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad by five percentage points if the election were held today, according to the latest Research 2000 poll.
The October poll of 600 likely voters commissioned by the liberal blog Daily Kos found Branstad bests Culver 48-43 in the hypothetical matchup, with a margin [...]

Three Democrats are already in the race to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2010, but rumors of a fourth, with deep pockets and high name recognition, are beginning to bubble to the surface.

Almost as quickly as it started, the idea that Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin might challenge Republican Sen. Charles Grassley in 2010 has been quelled.

Although there might not be a big rally planned for tonight or any former presidents walking down Main Street, the Hawkeye State has once again become a hotbed of national Democratic political activity.

Three women — one of them a newly announced endorser — led the way when former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards took the stage in Cedar Rapids Monday night to wrap up his “Main Street Express” bus tour across Iowa.
“Nothing that I have done in my life is more important than what I’m doing here [...]