36 days ago by Martin

Oh Iowa, I shed a tear for you. How do you tolerate all the men in collared shirts and sweater vests, polished SUV’s and perfectly combed hair clogging the streets of Mason and Sioux City with CNN fatty acid news feeds of politicians spewing cholesterol filled slogans, slinging hollowed out hot dog ...

37 days ago by Josh Putnam

FHQ will let the graphics speak for themselves here. However, I did want to make a statement about the delegate totals below and Iowa last night. There are a few things to know about the delegate selection process the Republican Party of Iowa utilizes. First of all, there were NO delegates at stake ...

37 days ago by Jack

A generation ago, Iowa Evangelicals would have regarded last night’s results as a sad display of spiritual decay in the GOP. A Mormon beats a Catholic by 8 votes, followed by a social libertarian who rarely ever mentions God? Results like that would have infuriated Pat Robertson in 1980. The accepta ...

37 days ago by Kira Davis

I never in my life would have thought I’d be describing the Iowa caucuses as exciting. Hell, I can’t even say the word “caucus” without having to suppress immature fits of giggles. It’s just such a funny word. I have never really taken the Iowa caucuses as seriously as Iowans themselves do. After al ...

37 days ago by Josh Putnam

Before the holidays, FHQ had the opportunity to speak with Arizona Democratic Party Executive Director Luis Heredia about the state party decision to abandon the February primary for late March caucuses. The motivation(s) for the move was obvious. The primary, scheduled for February 28 would have be ...

37 days ago by umoc193

The results are in from the Iowa caucuses for the Republican clowns…er candidates…running for their party’s Presidential nomination. The conclusion is they are inconclusive. Mitt Romney won the good folks’ hearts by the astounding total of eight…that’s right, eight (8) …votes over his chief rival Ne ...

37 days ago by chefbob50

Michele Bachmann Concedes 2012 GOP Primary Race After Iowa Caucus After a poor showing in Tuesday night's Iowa caucus, Michele Bachmann announced that she will be ending her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The conservative congresswoman from Minnesota addressed the decision at a ...

37 days ago by Broadway Carl

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of Romney campaign headquarters... What must they be saying behind the scenes after watching the results of the Iowa caucuses and realizing that they ended up in a statistical dead heat with Rick Santorum? Not Newt Gingrich. Not Ron Paul. Not Even Michele Bachmann or Rick ...

37 days ago by texaslynn

OK, here’s my take on the Iowa Caucuses… Huntsman: Is this dumbass still in the race? Oh yeah, he skipped Iowa and went straight to New Hampshire where Democrats are allowed to vote in the Republican primary. McCain actually used the strategy when he first ran in the primary against George W. Bush. ...

37 days ago by Shauna Wright

Win McNamee, Getty Images Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucus on Tuesday night by the narrowest of margins, besting former US Senator Rick Santorum by just eight votes in the first primary for the Republican presidential nomination. The final tally was 30,015 to 30,007, giv ...