11 hours ago by Josh Putnam

FHQ likes how the Des Moines Register raised the alert a few weeks ago about the potential 2012 Republican candidates not coming to the state and now has a poll out concerning the prospects chances in the Hawkeye state's 2012 caucus. It is strange to juxtapose the overall numbers among all Iowans an ...

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11 days ago by Jason Hancock

The Republican Party should steer clear of infighting and focus on the fiscal issues that unite them, former New York Gov. George Pataki told the Associated Press on the eve of a speech in Iowa. Pataki was the keynote speaker at the Scott County Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan Dinner Tuesday night, ...

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13 days ago by Jason Hancock

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the Hawkeye State next month to promote her new book, “Going Rogue,” according to a press release from the bookstore chain Barnes and Noble. Sarah Palin at a rally in Sioux City last year. Palin will hold a book signing at the chain’s Southern Hills Mall loc ...

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15 days ago by R.T.

After passing anti-abortion amendment, the United States House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill. More details, along with reactions, can be found here.

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19 days ago by mcnorman

If you want to vote, vote once and know your vote is counted as one. The Sibyl asks about today’s close elections, “Why would the POTUS put himself out there on a limb; betting his political future on the results of off-year elections?” Seems like ACORN will play an important role again. Haven’t we ...

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23 days ago by Jason Hancock

With Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty coming to Des Moines next weekend, coupled with the strange dust up over Sarah Palin’s speaking fee for a speech she never intended to give, 2012 prognosticators have had plenty to keep them busy. Now, throw former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee into the mix. Former Ark ...

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27 days ago by Jason Hancock

It was a mistake for his presidential campaign to skip Iowa, and it likely cost him his party’s nomination, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a recent interview with New York Magazine. In an article that focuses on whether he should make a run for governor of New York, Giuliani, who finish ...

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28 days ago by BBVM

Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention. A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. Robert Helvey was studying at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs on an Army fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened upon ...

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30 days ago by Chase Martyn

There has been a lot of chatter recently about which potential Republican presidential candidates might be wise to skip the 2012 Iowa Caucuses. Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic has argued that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty should skip Iowa because he will not pass all of the litmus tests imposed by the H ...

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36 days ago by Nick

Quick thought sparked up by this post by Paul Walter – it tends to be Tories who tell us how First Past The Post is the best system for electing MPs, so if it’s such a good system for choosing political representatives, why don’t they use it for their caucus meetings?

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