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‘The wisdom of being here’: Santorum, SC pols usher in 2016 campaign season at Chapin Labor Day Parade
Cannon Fulmer has a keepsake from meeting George Bush 16 years ago, when the Texas governor and eventual two-term president marched in the Chapin Labor Day parade.
Read More >>Visiting 99 Counties in Iowa Doesn’t Get Candidates as Far as It Used to
In a state that prizes retail campaigning, nothing is more revered than “the full Grassley” — a politician’s visit to all of Iowa’s 99 counties, named for the state’s peripatetic senior senator, Charles E. Grassley.
Read More >>Santorum is first to all 99 counties
Rick Santorum is the first presidential candidate this election cycle to campaign in all 99 Iowa counties, but it’s certainly no guarantee he will win the 2016 Iowa Republican Party caucuses.
Read More >>How Iowa’s premier pollster sees the 2016 race shaking out
The release of new Iowa poll numbers by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics is one of the few stop-what-you-are-doing-and-see-what-they-say moments left in politics. The woman behind the poll, which gets Iowa right every time, is Ann Selzer. After the new Register numbers came out Saturday night, I reached out to Ann to see if she might expand on a few questions I had about the poll.
Read More >>Fesler Returns to Santorum After Brief Stint with Perry
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) today announces the addition of Karen Fesler as National Caucus Coalitions Advisor. In this role, Fesler will work directly with National Political Director Jessica Colon to help coordinate coalitions in caucus states.
Read More >>Carson ties Trump at the top in Iowa poll
Ben Carson and Donald Trump are tied at the top of the Republican field in a new survey of likely Iowa caucus-goers with 23 percent each, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Read More >>Iowa Poll: At a glance, how each GOP candidate fares
Trump has pulled off a reversal in how caucusgoers view him. In May, his favorability was upside down: Just 27 percent viewed him favorably and 63 percent unfavorably. Now, it’s 61 percent favorable, 35 percent unfavorable.
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