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It was a mistake for his presidential campaign to skip Iowa, and it likely cost him his party’s nomination, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a recent interview with New York Magazine.

As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.

It’s doubtful that anyone running into Cedar Rapids resident Jason Hedges would move to the other side of the street to let him pass. He’s young, tall and attractive, with bright eyes and bouncy brown curls atop his head. Until a few weeks ago, however, he was political hired gun, pitching a Republican message in [...]

Jacob Nieuwsma is a Linn County co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign and a co-chairman of the Linn-Mar Teenage Republicans at Linn-Mar High School.  He was at Giuliani’s town hall meeting in Dows Theater at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

After winter break, Linn-Mar High School students return to classes on Jan. 3, so Nieuwsma [...]

After being introduced by former Cedar Rapids mayor Paul Pate, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke and took questions at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday night. 

Pate is the state chair for Giuliani’s campaign in Iowa.

While answering questions from the audience, Giuliani gave an interpretation of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) [...]

Iowans are no strangers to national influence. Every four years large groups, hoping to drive national conversations and set public policy, open offices in the state. The groups’ pet issues are as varied as there is public sentiment and range from education to sub-prime lending, from health care to global warming. There is at least [...]

[Commentary] Way back in the dark ages, before George Bush 41 coined the term “Big Mo” in 1980, “delegate count” was the phrase-that-pays in nomination contests. Voting first still made Iowa matter, but the results from early states were placed in the context of overall progress to the nomination and wasn’t the whole ballgame the [...]

National Right to Life became the first national grassroots organization to issue a formal endorsement in the Republican presidential contest Tuesday morning when they put their support behind former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.
“We are thrilled and honored,” said Thompson’s Iowa Campaign Director Bob Haus in a phone interview. “We just couldn’t be happier. This reinforces [...]

AMES — Rudy Giuliani is dreaming.

No, really.

That’s what he told an audience of about 400 at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union in Ames Thursday afternoon.

In fact, Giuliani joked, he’s had the same dream over and over. In it, the former New York City mayor and Republican presidential candidate’s kindred political spirit, Nicholas Sarkozy, a Frenchman [...]

Former state Sen. Maggie Tinsman is pro-choice and also one of four state co-chairs for Rudy Giuliani’s Iowa campaign. 

She said that it wasn’t just his “phenomenal” response to 9/11 that attracted her to Giuliani.  Like her, Giuliani is pro-choice but “against abortion.”  According to Tinsman, Giuliani “doesn’t think the government should be involved with people’s [...]