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Tue Apr 23, 2013 at 07:05:00 AM CDT
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Following up on last Friday's post, Michele Bachmann's former chief of staff Andy Parrish signed an affidavit yesterday containing details on State Senator Kent Sorenson's compensation for work on the Bachmann presidential campaign.
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 at 12:20:00 PM CDT
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Two months ago, the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee voted to table allegations that Republican State Senator Kent Sorenson received improper payments as Iowa chair of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign. This week a former Bachmann campaign staffer confirmed that he will soon submit testimony to the committee about the arrangement.
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Mon Feb 11, 2013 at 12:46:14 PM CST
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State Senator Kent Sorenson has made news lately leading the charge to restore the death penalty for some crimes in Iowa. I wonder whether that popular cause will be enough to save his political career, in light of recent claims by Republicans who have worked closely with him.
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 at 07:55:28 AM CST
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One of the most unpleasant members of the Iowa legislature may have committed an ethics violation, according to a former consultant for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign.
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 at 06:35:00 AM CDT
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A former staffer on Representative Michelle Bachmann's presidential campaign in Iowa has sued the candidate and several other former staffers over the alleged theft of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators statewide e-mail list last November.
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Sun Apr 22, 2012 at 06:40:00 AM CDT
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Is Mitt Romney destined to become the presidential nominee least liked by his own party's activists? Yesterday's elections to the Republican Party of Iowa's State Central Committee provided another clue that the answer is yes.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 at 11:30:41 AM CST
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The Republican Party of Iowa will not declare Rick Santorum the winner of the Iowa caucuses, even though he leads Mitt Romney by a few dozen votes according to the certified results, and led Romney unofficially in the eight precincts where results could not be certified. A narrow margin of victory with a clear winner would have been great for the Iowa GOP, as it would show multiple paths to winning the caucuses. A disputed result that produces no official winner is a public relations nightmare.
UPDATE: Iowa GOP Chair Matt Strawn now admits Santorum won the caucuses. The episode still makes the party look bad, for reasons I discuss below.
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Wed Jan 04, 2012 at 10:28:22 AM CST
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Representative Michele Bachmann is suspending her presidential campaign this morning after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses. In the summer, she briefly became the first female GOP presidential candidate to be a major contender in key early states. What happened to her afterwards won't encourage other women to seek higher office.
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Tue Jan 03, 2012 at 17:44:50 PM CST
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This thread is for sharing stories from your precinct caucus meetings as well as for discussing the results once they have been reported.
Iowa Republicans and Democrats, I'm particularly interested to know how many candidates for Congress or the state legislature addressed your caucus, or had a campaign representative greet caucus-goers and speak on their behalf. GOP Congressional challenger Rod Blum is planning to meet Republicans in two IA-01 counties instead of caucusing in his home town of Dubuque. GOP Representative Tom Latham, who is running against Leonard Boswell next year in IA-03, claims to have lined up leaders in all 384 precincts across the district. Steve King's challenger, Christie Vilsack, is speaking to all Democratic caucus-goers in Story County's sole caucus location, Ames High School.
UPDATE: Adding results after the jump.
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Tue Jan 03, 2012 at 11:34:54 AM CST
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I didn't expect this year's Republican caucuses to be as much of a nail-biter as the 2008 Democratic competition in Iowa, but here we are on game day, and the top three GOP candidates could plausibly finish in any order.
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Sun Jan 01, 2012 at 10:35:19 AM CST
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Is Rick Santorum rising fast enough to finish in the top two on Tuesday? The Des Moines Register's final Iowa poll before the caucuses is one of many to show Santorum gaining strength. Representative Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley made positive comments about Santorum's campaign over the weekend. Although Rick Perry is criticizing Santorum's record in Congress, there's not enough time left to make an effective case against the latest "not Romney" through paid media.
The new Iowa polling numbers are after the jump, along with news from the stump and some candidates' closing Iowa television and radio ads.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 at 20:04:17 PM CST
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Talk about your last-minute bombshells: Representative Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chair, State Senator Kent Sorenson, just endorsed Representative Ron Paul in Des Moines this evening. Background on Sorenson's connections to prominent Paul supporters is after the jump.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 at 07:23:35 AM CST
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Six days before the Iowa caucuses, no Republican candidate has a clear lead, social conservatives remain scattered among several contenders, and new television commercials are launched on almost a daily basis. Numbers from the two latest opinion polls and news from the campaign trail are after the jump, along with some commercials currently showing on Iowa tv screens.
UPDATE: Added numbers from a new CNN poll and the latest Ron Paul tv ad.
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Tue Dec 20, 2011 at 05:55:00 AM CST
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I don't care what Bob Dole said when he was in the mood for flattery, I'm not going to waste Bleeding Heartland readers' time discussing why Governor Terry Branstad won't be on anyone's short list for vice presidential candidates. But it's never too early to do a little scenario spinning about running mates.
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Sun Dec 18, 2011 at 23:16:17 PM CST
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Maybe "Organize, organize, organize and then get hot at the end" isn't outdated Iowa caucus wisdom after all. Public Policy Polling's latest survey of Iowa Republicans finds Representative Ron Paul slightly ahead of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich dropped to third place.
UPDATE: The Republican polling firm Insider Advantage/Majority Opinion Research has also picked up on the Gingrich slide and Paul gain. Details are at the end of this post.
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 at 18:21:08 PM CST
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Seven Republican candidates take the stage tonight as Fox News and the Iowa GOP co-host a presidential debate in Sioux City. I'll be live-blogging after the jump, where I've also posted some recent news about the race in Iowa.
UPDATE: Scroll down for the live-blog.
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Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 08:19:05 AM CST
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A year ago, former President George W. Bush's income tax cuts for all brackets were due to expire on December 31. Republicans had President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats on the defensive, not wanting to be seen as raising taxes in a tough economy. Now the tables are turned as a payroll tax cut benefiting all wage earners will expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts otherwise. Democrats in Washington and around the country see this issue as a political winner.
Last week the U.S. Senate defeated two more proposals for extending the payroll tax cut. Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Iowa Democratic Party used the controversy to create bad publicity for Representative Tom Latham (IA-04) and Representative Steve King (IA-05).
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Sat Dec 10, 2011 at 12:49:05 PM CST
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Seven Six Republican presidential candidates debate tonight in Des Moines, the first time the group has debated since Herman Cain left the race and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich became the front-runner. I plan to live-blog tonight's debate here, but I wanted to post this thread early to give Bleeding Heartland readers a chance to talk about the race. Links and recent news from the campaign are after the jump.
UPDATE: Scroll down for the live-blog.
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