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 [...]

  By Jill June —-   Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have endorsed an extreme agenda that calls for ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood, repealing ObamaCare and limiting access to birth control, and both have backed proposals that ban abortion. What is surprising and quite frankly disturbing is that the Republican candidates willfully ignore [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS – Although his “Compact with Iowans” incorporates points from Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, 1st District challenger Ben Lange hasn’t read his fellow Republican’s plan and takes no position on it. Lange declined to take a position on the GOP vice presidential nominee’s plan despite a demonstration by his opponent’s supporters outside of [...]

  By Tim Trenkle —–   Before the Janesville, Wis., General Motors plant closed in the Great Recession year of 2008, it hummed with prosperity, a great assembly line begun in 1919. Legend had it as the biggest GM plant on earth. In the 1980s, sweethearts graduating from nearby Craig High School could combine incomes [...]

President Barack Obama touted his plans on a wide-range of issues, including renewable energy and education, in making his case for a second term at an Iowa City rally Friday evening. The president also focused his remarks on the middle class, saying his policies would boost that segment of the population and small businesses. Republicans [...]

CORALVILLE  — On the eve of President Barack Obama’s stop in the liberal stronghold of Iowa City, Republicans weren’t laying out the welcome mat. Instead, they held an event of their own Thursday night, attended by Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Priebus criticized Obama and touted the importance of Iowa for Republican [...]

VIDEO: Interview with Rep. Paul Ryan: CEDAR RAPIDS — “Are You Better Off?” was the slogan emblazoned on posters at this afternoon’s Republican campaign rally as the party’s vice presidential candidate made an appeal keyed to anxiety over the nation’s lagging economy. “(President Obama) can’t tell you you’re better off,” U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan told [...]

DES MOINES – Obama for America campaign officials said Sunday that President Barack Obama is slated to return to Iowa this week, one day after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden were scheduled to travel to Iowa for a [...]

DES MOINES – Iowa continues to be a hotbed of presidential campaigning this election cycle. Moments before President Barack Obama was to deliver remarks to a campaign rally at Living History Farms in Urbandale on Saturday afternoon, aides to the Romney-Ryan GOP ticket announced that Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman who was nominated as Romney’s vice [...]

  By Timothy Walch —-   Paul Ryan for vice president! Really? Who’s Paul Ryan? A recent CNN poll indicated that more than half the country doesn’t know enough about him to form an opinion. This anonymity is quickly evaporating, however, as the Internet and airwaves are filled with stories about this energetic young congressman [...]