Tom Harkin

Harkin joins Kennedy health care task force

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, has tapped Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin to be a part of a task force to develop a Senate Democratic proposal to expand health insurance coverage, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Harkin: When it comes to Lieberman, maybe it’s better to ‘forgive and forget’

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, while predicting national Democrats would pick up seven seats in the U.S. Senate, was in a forgiving mood toward Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

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Chuck Todd: ‘Republican infrastructure is just a mess’ in Iowa

NBC Political Director Chuck Todd said the Republican Party of Iowa was in disarray, which could be summed up by the “lack of a challenge they’ve given to the usually vulnerable Tom Harkin.”

Harkin calls himself a ‘godfather’ to Sen. Stevens’ opponent in Alaska

CARROLL — After speaking at a get-out-the-vote  rally in Carroll Saturday, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, stood outside the Moose Lodge talking on his cell phone to a senate candidate thousands of miles away in, well, moose country.
Harkin told Iowa Independent that he was one of a few senators acting as a kind of a political “godfather” for Mark Begich, the [...]

Gazette backs McCain

Also endorses Harkin, Braley, Miller-Meeks, Schmett
John McCain picked up a relatively rare newspaper endorsement Saturday from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The eastern Iowa daily also backed incumbent Democrats Tom Harkin for U.S. Senate and Bruce Braley in the 1st Congressional District, but chose Republican challengers Mariannette Miller-Meeks over 2nd District Rep. Dave Loebsack and Kim [...]

Harkin: McCain not toast, but close to an English muffin

“John McCain, I won’t say he’s toast, but he’s rapidly approaching English muffin territory,” said U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, in remarks at the Moose Lodge in downtown Carroll before an audience of about 30 party activists.

Press-Citizen endorses Harkin

The Iowa Cty Press-Citizen endorsed Tom Harkin for a fifth term Tuesday, reversing a 2002 recommendation for new representation in the U.S. Senate.
The Press-Citizen endorsed Republican Greg Ganske in that race. But this year they had nothing but negatives for Harkin’s opponent, Christopher Reed.
“Six years ago, we thought Iowa Republicans had a candidate who might [...]

Poll: Harkin 57, Reed 41

Despite an under-funded, nearly invisible campaign, Republican U.S. Senate challenger Christopher Reed is polling 41 percent to incumbent Tom Harkin’s 57 in a new Rasmussen poll.

Reed calls Harkin ‘Tokyo Rose of Al-Qaida’

Republican Senate candidate Christopher Reed called incumbent Democrat Tom Harkin “Tokyo Rose” and “anti-American” because he provides “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
The statement came during a debate aired on Iowa Public Television and moderated by the Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen.
“We’re taking advice from somebody who has an eight-year history of becoming the [...]