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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum will appear on Illinois’ primary ballot, but some political analysts say the former Pennsylvania senator won’t have the momentum to make it past Super Tuesday March 6 and to the state’s election come March 20. Santorum’s fifth-place finish in New Hampshire Tuesday and his second-place success in Iowa last...
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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 – The day started early for Travis Lovelady, one of the 1,500 precinct leaders working on behalf of Texas Gov. Rick Perry across Iowa. Up at 6:30 a.m., Lovelady caught up on the latest news as he prepared his speech for the Precinct 70 caucus at Merrill Junior High School in the...
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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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DES MOINES – A prominent evangelical leader in Iowa may be spreading his message in Chicago if GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s popularity surge continues beyond the Iowa caucuses. “We have thousands of supporters, and were very blessed to have many people in Iowa and across the country who really believe in what were...
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DES MOINES–Republican presidential candidates campaigning against gay marriage may win over conservative Iowa caucus-goers Tuesday night, but that strategy won’t work for the majority of Iowan voters or in the general election, say a number of gay-rights advocates. Iowans, along with voters in other states, are more concerned with improving the economy rather than...
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