• The Iowa Democratic Party’s platform plank on legalizing all drugs may be used against candidates across the state. Read on for much more about these surveys. Continue Reading... Prospects for electing more women to the Iowa legislature Friday, Aug 26 2016 desmoinesdem 0 Comments In ...
Launched in 2020, the Iowa Capital Dispatch based in Des Moines, Iowa, is a news website covering political news from a liberal perspective. They are part of theStates Newsroom Network, which consists of news sites based in 15 states’ capitals. Theirabout statement reads, “Iowans value inte...
Biden, the incumbent Democrat, faces little outward resistance from his own party as he seeks its nomination for president. His biggest Democratic challenger in the primary, Rep. Dean Philips of Minnesota, is mounting a long-shot campaign that his little chance of impacting the race. —Kevin Br...
The Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow, a tech firm that last year joined with Acronym, a liberal nonprofit group focused on digital messaging, more than $63,000 in two separate payments in November and December last year for "website development," according to state campaign finance records. ...
"Democratic accountability requires that the public be reasonably well-informed about policy, that the public adjusts its preferences for ‘more’ or ‘less’ policy activity in response to what policymakers actually do," Wlezien, who earned his political science doctorate at the University of Iowa...
This year’s House Democratic caucus was the first in Iowa legislative history to have a majority of women, but Andy McKean’s party switch in April, Heddens’ retirement, and Wilburn’s election shifts the balance back to 24 men and 23 women. (Ten women and 43 men are part of the ...
2025 nikki fried vows to rebuild florida democrats as re-elected chair nikki fried was reelected saturday as chair of the florida democratic party, which is seeking to regain relevance in a state that has tilted decidedly toward the republicans associated press jan. 25, 2025 kia reca...
The Democratic National Committee has put out a memo in advance of the Iowa caucus that is meant to pre-frame the results —Surprise! The committee thinks all the candidates are losers— but also offers insights into how they plan to approach the general election. ...
And while the Iowa Democratic Party said it is working to validate the results using photographs and a paper trail, candidates are already shifting their focus to the next contest: the New Hampshire primary on February 11. "Somehow, someway, I'm getting on a plane tonight to New Hampshire,...
Goetz said he hadn’t previously been too involved in the political scene beyond yelling at his TV, but upon moving to Iowa he discovered that one of his partners was the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party. Goetz went along to a fundraiser, where he was introduced to then-Gov. Tom Vi...