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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.

The McCain-Palin campaign has high hopes for Iowa. After campaign stops in Sioux City and Des Moines last weekend, the campaign is sending Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin back into the Hawkeye State on election eve.
The Republican vice presidential nominee will make another swing into the state, this time visiting Dubuque in eastern Iowa. The “Road [...]

MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann Tuesday night said U.S. Rep. Steve King’s charge in Sioux City on Saturday that America would slip into a “totalitarian dictatorship” under an Obama administration revealed the Iowa Republican to be among the “least stable” members of Congress.

While many of the 12 people interviewed by Iowa Independent after McCain’s Cedar Falls speech had yet to cast their vote, all but one had already decided to support the Republican ticket.

Tired of what it views as the oversimplification of the presidential election, the Quad-City Times has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama.
Boiling the election down to a battle between “experience or change” doesn’t do this historic vote justice, the paper said, and those words don’t begin to cover all requirements for the next president.

Citing his military experience and “more than a quarter century of accomplished service in the United States House and Senate,” the Sioux City Journal today endorsed Republican John McCain.
The country faces many problems, The Journal wrote, “from a financial meltown, to the war on terror, to health care, to Social Security, to energy, to immigration, [...]

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was greeted like a rock star when she entered Hy-Vee Hall Saturday afternoon, carrying the message that the presidential contest in Iowa is far from over.

Lines to get into the rally stretched nearly three blocks. The fire marshal closed the entrance after 10,000 people were inside. An unknown number of supporters had to be turned away.

Those who did get inside were told that no matter what the polls say, Republicans have to keep the faith.

SIOUX CITY — Warming up a crowd in Sioux City this morning for GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, U.S. Rep. Steve King said Republicans are not going far enough to paint Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as the purveyor of a socialist agenda.

Sarah Palin kept the gloves on for some of her full-fisted challenges to Barack Obama’s patriotism, but she threw them nonetheless.

With 11 days left in the presidential campaign, there is no more valuable resource than the candidates’ time.