WASHINGTON — Extending a federal wind energy tax credit that has helped create 75,000 U.S. jobs since 2007 and several thousand in Iowa may seem a safe bet in Congress, even with a $5 billion price tag that is modest by Washington standards. But the issue, which brought Iowa Republicans Gov. Terry Branstad and Sen. [...]
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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 [...]
continue »By Alex Salisbury By Alex Salisbury Are you better off today than you were four years ago? This is the big question of this election. The thought has been brought up multiple times in the course of this election and became widespread at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. The truth is that your [...]
continue »By Alex O’Brien — Forget the commonly asked question, “Are things better than they were four years ago?” and consider this, “Is what America voted for and what we were promised in 2008 all coming together in 2012? Is Barack Obama, and everything he promised to do for this country best for this country?” In [...]
continue »Gazette Editorial Board == President Barack Obama has made his mark during his historic first term. The Affordable Care Act of 2010, a massive overhaul of the health care system that has some features we support. A stimulus measure that the majority of economists said was necessary to avoid an even deeper recession. Some flawed, [...]
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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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Betting that Iowa’s battleground state voters will grow weary of competing attack ads as the presidential campaign grinds on, a progressive group is offering its analysis of the Romney-Ryan policy proposals. “We think they are going to be looking for some data on the Romney-Ryan policies that ask the middle class to pay more so [...]
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The rocket attack in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador to that country and three staff members should be treated “like an act of war,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning. “There ought to be serious implications,” the Iowa Republican said on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. “Particularly when you get a rocket attack, it’s an act [...]
continue »President Obama has talked up a storm about his Republican challenger’s lack of support for extending the Production Tax Credit that the wind energy industry says has spurred rapid growth of U.S. jobs and manufacturing since 2005. Mitt Romney’s campaign has argued the tax rebate is a giveaway to corporations and doesn’t solve our [...]
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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 [...]
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