DES MOINES – State election officials confirmed Monday that the 1,589,899 Iowans who cast ballots last month was a record turnout for a presidential election. The Iowa Executive Council, acting as the state’s Board of Canvass, approved 2012 general election results compiled by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office that showed 73.28 percent of the [...]
continue »The Gazette Editorial Board —- For the past several months — especially since the national conventions that wrapped up in early September — this page has been filled with a wide variety of voices talking about candidates and election issues. As should be the case in a section devoted to viewpoints on topics important [...]
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By Dennis Lamb — I agree with the Republicans on many issues. Mitt Romney’s selection of a team of military-industrial complex-connected Dick Cheney-it’s for guidance in foreign affairs, several of whom led the charge into Iraq, causes me concern, however. Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency at [...]
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DES MOINES – GOP president candidate Mitt Romney told cheering Iowa supporters Sunday he’s counting on them to help punch his ticket to the White House on Tuesday. “I need your vote, I need your work, I need your help,” Romney told about 4,500 enthusiastic Iowans who turned out at Hy-Vee Hall for a [...]
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By John B. Taylor and Tad Lipsky —- While economists declared the national recession over as of June 2009, unfortunately, the economy has remained very weak since then and has recently grown weaker. Compared with recoveries from past recessions, economic growth has averaged only 2.2 percent in this recovery while it averaged 5.7 percent [...]
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Often, newspaper endorsements are not universally endorsed. Shocking, I know. Some folks think we make lousy picks. Others believe we shouldn’t be picking at all. A few are elated by our decisions. Many of them work for the candidates we chose. Endorsements got a lot of attention this week. The Des Moines Register shocked [...]
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DES MOINES – Democrats boarded a bus Tuesday to make a final statewide sweep to close the deal for President Obama with Iowa voters and to implore them to cast their ballots early. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said America has gone “from the brink” of economic disaster in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers “went broke” [...]
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First Lady Michelle Obama will make a campaign appearance in Iowa City Oct. 29. Obama will be at the Sheraton Iowa City Hotel, 210 S. Dubuque St. Doors open at 11 a.m. Her visit would come on the heels of the president’s Oct. 17 and 24 visits to Cornell College in Mount Vernon and [...]
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Mitt Romney made few researchable claims in his 18-minute speech tonight at The Eastern Iowa Airport, but here are the ones we were able to check: “Because of the cuts that Obamacare put in place on Medicare, $716 billion, 50 percent of America’s doctors are saying they won’t accept new Medicare patients.” A national survey [...]
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The craziest thing happened when I went up to Minnesota to visit my mom last week. She turned on the TV to watch the evening news and there were all these … advertisements. No, not like you’re thinking. They were ads for things: Razors, cars, cleaning supplies — you name it. Ads selling [...]
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