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With Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty coming to Des Moines next weekend, coupled with the strange dust up over Sarah Palin’s speaking fee for a speech she never intended to give, 2012 prognosticators have had plenty to keep them busy.
Now, throw former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee into the mix.

Iowa Independent alum Douglas Burns forwards an interesting theory in today’s Carroll Daily Times-Herald: Ashton Kutcher, the Iowa-born TV and movie star, should run against U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron).

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s political action committee claimed today that the recorded phone calls that were received by voters in Iowa and New Hampshire recently were paid for by someone else:
Recently, there have been some pollsters or pitchmen trading on the Sarah Palin name – taking a pulse on the Governor’s favorability. None of these [...]

Iowa voters are already getting phone calls about Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee who became a household name during last year’s election, reports the Alaska blog The Mudflats.  The blog posted an approximate transcript of the calls, in which an automated voice asked listeners poll questions:

The exclusive story is no longer the exclusive domain of the traditional media. In many cases, it’s the small, independent media that are breaking stories and driving the news these days.

How can evangelicals support a woman for president at the same time they worry about women as pastors? By reading the Bible very selectively.

With former Arkansas governor and Republican caucus victor Mike Huckabee visiting Iowa Nov. 20 and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal visiting Nov. 22, it’s beginning to seem like the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is already underway.
With that in mind, the Sioux City Journal asked 11 Republican county chairs in the conservative stronghold of [...]

 
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.

Palin told those gathered from the tri-state area of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin that for too long special needs children in America have been “set apart and maybe have felt excluded.”

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.