Ken Mehlman is one of the preeminent Republican political operatives in the country. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush’s successful re-election campaign in 2004. Exit polling showed that “family values” was perhaps the key component in thrusting Bush ahead of John Kerry in that race. It would have surprised a lot [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. In Brad Anderson’s case, SOS doesn’t stand for Secretary of State. The former Obama staffer’s campaign is already sending out distress signals … It’s bad enough that he’s a partisan hack who worked closely with supervised convicted identity thief Zach Edwards [...]
By Craig Robinson The consensus following the 2012 elections was that Mitt Romney ran a technically flawed campaign and was a poor messenger for the GOP, and thus he lost what many thought was a winnable race. The Romney campaign was also blamed for other Republican shortcomings on the ballot, especially a number of U.S. [...]
Check elsewhere on TheIowaRepublican.com for a concise summary of the Republican Party of Iowa’s state central committee meeting today. What follows is a stream of consciousness transcript for information-hungry activists, interested media representatives that didn’t make the trip, and GOP activists who could not attend the meeting in person. This piece is 5,000+ words of palace [...]
By Craig Robinson July – Chinks in the Republican Armor Republicans remained optimistic about their prospects in the November elections until the very end, but signs that not everything was going as planned appeared in July. Mid-year state campaign disclosures showed that Republicans in the Iowa Senate were unable to raise the significant funds needed [...]
By Craig Robinson January – Romney Wins. No, Santorum Declared Official Winner of Iowa Caucuses Due to the early date of the Iowa Caucuses, the top political story from Iowa in 2012 occurred in the early days of the New Year. The winner of the Iowa Caucuses is always in the running to be the [...]
By Pablo Rodríguez
Thanks to Speaker John Boehner and Congressional Republicans holding the U.S. economy hostage during the debt-ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011, a package of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as the ‘fiscal cliff’ …