Dick Dearden To Retire, Nate Boulton Announces Senate Run
Longtime Democratic State Senator Dick Dearden will be retiring next year and not running for re-election in 2016. Democrats looking to succeed the Senator in... Read more.
Rising Star Profile: Miyoko Hikiji
When Miyoko Hikiji’s friends first suggested to her that she run for office, she was hesitant. Am I really qualified for this? Would I be... Read more.
Who Will Drop Out Next?
Pour one out for Scotty boy, his all-too-brief campaign has come to an end. After Scott Walker’s surprising announcement on Monday that he’s quittin... Read more.
4 Worst GOP Immigration Moments (So Far)
(Guest Post from Hector Salamanca, an immigration activist who attends nearly every Iowa Caucus campaign event) Happy national Hispanic Heritage month! It has b... Read more.
Is It Happening Again To Hillary Clinton?
It’s different this time. That must have been the thought going through Hillary Clinton’s mind as her campaign van crossed the border into Iowa days... Read more.
Leading Iowa Democrats Lining Up Behind Jim Mowrer
Influential Democrats seem to increasingly see Jim Mowrer as the most formidable candidate to take on freshman Republican Congressman David Young in the 3rd Dis... Read more.
New Sidewire App Offers Up Key Insider Political Analysis
It can be hard at times during the non-stop 2016 coverage to find reliable, well-informed analysis of what’s actually going on inside the campaigns and... Read more.
Boy, Sure Would Be Nice If Democrats Got To Debate Like That
It was an exercise in endurance slogging through the three-hour GOP debate last night, but no one could possibly look away. The Republican debates this... Read more.
Clinton/Sanders Messaging Poll Goes Through Iowa
About 15 minutes before the main Republican debate on CNN last night I got a poll call testing various messaging points on both Hillary Clinton... Read more.
The Barack Obama We Need To See More Of
It was a relatively ho-hum affair for most of President Barack Obama’s visit to North High School in Des Moines, where he briefly laid out... Read more.