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Out of a strong third place in the Iowa caucuses and a solid second in the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul only hopes his own party and some skeptical voters would trust him to beat President Barack Obama in November. Despite getting three times as many votes in the Granite State...
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As Iowans kicked off the 2012 presidential election, ChicagoTalks reporter Paris Lewbel talked with several caucus goers about why they take part in the unique once-every-four-years event.
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DES MOINES–Two members of Occupy the Caucus say they were discriminated against when they were asked to leave former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s public town hall meeting Monday night in Clive. Kaylynn Strain, 45, of Des Moines, said a building employee at Competitive Edged, 9350 Hickman Rd., an Iowa-based advertising company that hosted the...
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While Republican voters caucused for their candidate of choice, Iowa Democrats spent Tuesday night devising a way to keep President Obama in office. Unlike 2008, Obama wasn’t in the Hawkeye state to meet and greet his supporters, though he did appear via webcam at caucus sites around Iowa in an attempt to energize his...
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DES MOINES – At the Valley High School fieldhouse – covered in the banners of past victories and exclamations of “GO TIGERS!” – Precinct 211 caucus chairman Jim Arneson tallied the votes of his neighbors and friends. This was one of 1,800 sites across Iowa where residents gathered to vote for their favorite GOP...
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It’s been a wild ride for Republican presidential challengers in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich is the latest candidate with motion sickness. Gingrich, the former U.S. House Speaker, finished a distant fourth in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest. Predicting the winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses had been nearly impossible, with candidates taking turns sliding up...
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DES MOINES – Even before the final numbers were in Tuesday night, there were plenty of people ready to declare defeat for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the Iowa Republican caucuses. “Odds are, she will do quite poorly tonight,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said in...
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Ron Paul may not have won Tuesday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, but the longtime Texas congressman said he did well enough to continue his fight to win the GOP presidential nomination. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were in a virtual tie late Tuesday at about 25 percent in unofficial...
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Political analysts have been predicting that the Occupy Movement was beginning to die, but ChicagoTalks reporter Paris Lewbel, in Des Moines for the 2012 caucuses, found the movement is going strong in Iowa. He met some Chicagoans who traveled to the Hawkeye State to witness the nation’s first presidential nominating contest.
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