Days ahead of a Republican panel taking up recommendations to fix what went wrong with the party’s 2012 precinct caucuses, the Democratic Party chair offered her own advice: Drop the GOP Straw Poll. That’s not going to happen, according to Republican Parry of Iowa Chairman A.J. Spiker. It’s not even part of the conversation, he [...]

A panel of Iowa Republicans looking at how the party’s 2012 precinct caucuses went wrong is expected to recommend more pre-caucus training, a more open process for releasing the results and a 72-hour certification process. The GOP’s Caucus Review Committee may hear additional recommendations when it meets at 1 p.m. June 25 at Western Iowa [...]

Unity was the theme of the Republican Party of Iowa convention, but there were undercurrents of tension and takeover. “We all want to defeat President Obama,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said in a call for unity. If Obama is re-elected he will have “the flexibility to be even more liberal, to do more things by executive [...]

Iowa’s Democrats struck familiar themes about the government safety net, workers’ rights, a turning economy and the middle class at their state convention in downtown Des Moines on Saturday. “I believe in small towns; I believe in small cities,” former Iowa first lady and congressional candidate Christie Vilsack told an adoring crowd that held up [...]

Nearly eight in 10 Iowa Republicans rate the accuracy of the tabulation of Iowa precinct caucus results as excellent or good, according to a non-scientific poll conducted by the Republican Party of Iowa. Seventy-nine percent of the 669 Republicans surveyed by the Iowa Caucus Review Committee rate the accuracy of the caucus results as good [...]

President Obama’s visit to Iowa this week will include a grassroots event at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. The White House previously announced that, on Thursday, Obama will give an economic speech in Newton and meet with supporters in Des Moines. Obama for America Iowa says the Des Moines stop will include a grassroots [...]

The Republican Party of Iowa caught heat from news organizations for reneging on its own plan for releasing certified presidential precinct caucus results by giving them to the Des Moines Register before any other media outlets. One of the party’s critics at a public hearing held by the GOP in Des Moines on Tuesday was [...]

DES MOINES – Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney unleashed a scathing attack on President Obama’s economic policies Tuesday, blaming Obama for creating a “financial crisis of debt and spending” that threatens the future for many Americans. “A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to [...]

Plan on seeing plenty of President Barack Obama this month, at least on television. The president’s re-election campaign said Monday it is spending $25 million in advertising this month, launching a new ad focusing on the economy in nine states, including Iowa. The ad comes as a new poll shows the president and Republican Mitt [...]

  An Iowa adviser to Republican Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign says the weeks between the January Iowa caucuses and certifying Santorum as winner cost the candidate crucial fundraising. Jamie Johnson was the lone member of a panel established to review the historically close January caucuses to propose changes. At a meeting Thursday, Johnson noted that [...]