Road to the White House

Former GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum announces he will be the spokesman of Give Cures on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Coralville. (Hayley Bruce/The Gazette)

Illness leads Santorum to cancel Iowa visit

Pennsylvania senator was slated to attend pair of Des Moines events today

Former Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has cancelled two scheduled stops in Des Moines today. The former Pennsylvania senator was hospitalized this weekend for a gastrointestinal illness and dehydration. Santorum won the Iowa Caucus in 2012, and has hinted at running as a candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Santorum was scheduled to attend a [...]

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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks to congregants during a campaign stop at Jubilee Family Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Sunday, Jan, 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Iowa Senate committee decides not to act on ethics complaint involving Bachmann

Former Bachmann aide claimed that state senator received illegal payments

The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee voted not to reprimand a state senator accused of skirting Senate ethics rules while he worked for Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign, or even to appoint an investigator to look into the allegations. The committee voted to dismiss one allegation against Sen. Kent Sorenson, R-Milo, and hold off on two others [...]

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Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann exits her bus after she was announced as the winner of the 2011 Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Former Bachmann aide alleges ethics violation in Iowa

Complaint says former presidential candidate made improper payments to Iowa state senator

A former aide to Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has filed an ethics complaint with the Iowa Senate, alleging that during her presidential campaign, Bachmann made improper payments to a state senator. Peter Waldron says in the written complaint filed Jan. 28 that Bachmann for President tried to conceal paying Republican state Sen. Kent Sorenson [...]

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President Barack Obama is sworn by Chief Justice John Roberts at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama says ‘America’s possibilities are limitless’

President sworn in for second term

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered [...]

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President Barack Obama is officially sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Blue Room of the White House during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Next to Obama are first lady Michelle Obama, holding the Robinson Family Bible, and daughters Malia and Sasha. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

Obama sworn in for 4 more years in office

President will repeat the swearing-in ritual Monday before a crowd of up to 800,000 people

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping into his second term, President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday in an intimate swearing-in ceremony at the White House, the leader of a nation no longer in the throes of the recession he inherited four years ago, but still deeply divided. The president, surrounded by family in the [...]

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Teresa Garman talks with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, during Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's annual birthday fundraiser, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in Altoona, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Rubio vouches for limited government conservatism

Senator from Florida attends Branstad fundraiser in Altoona

ALTOONA — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered soothing words last night to Iowa Republicans still smarting from a tough election outcome, assuring them that limited government conservatism is still the best hope for the nation’s economic and social future. “We are ready to move on and move forward,” Rubio told about 700 people who turned [...]

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Democrat and Republican

Iowa presidential votes trending toward Democrats

But experts say shift may not last long

After more than a century of being reliably Republican red, Iowa is emerging as a true blue Democratic state in presidential elections. Between the Civil War and the late 1980s, Iowans supported Republican presidential candidate in all but five elections. However, in six of the last seven races, Iowans voted for the Democratic presidential nominee. [...]

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President Barack Obama points to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign event at Nationwide Arena, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Iowa goes with nation, votes Obama for second term

Early made up for some loss of enthusiasm for president

Republicans will need to examine their strategy moving forward, political analysts said, as Iowa concurred with the rest of the nation in voting for a second term for President Obama. Iowa State University political science professor Steffen Schmidt pointed to the gridlock in Congress as an example of a game plan that didn’t work and [...]

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In this Oct. 22, 2012 file photo, Mitt Romney and President Obama walk past each other on stage at the end of the last debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Electors want one more chance to vote for Obama, Romney

Iowa’s six electors will meet in Des Moines Dec. 17

CEDAR RAPIDS – Joni Scotter and Glen Salisbury know who they want to be the next president and they hope to get the opportunity to cast their vote – in 41 days. Scotter and Salisbury are the Republican and Democratic presidential electors, respectively, for Iowa’s 1st District. Iowa’s six electors will meet in Des Moines [...]

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Vote button on american flag

Presidential campaigns greet Iowans 1 last time

Ryan, Obama make final bids for support before election

DES MOINES — President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan punctuated their 2012 campaigns with high-energy rallies Monday they each hope will deliver the final push that will propel them across the finish line in Iowa today. Thousands of Obama supporters filled the downtown streets last night around an East Village building [...]

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