Earlier this week, the Republican Party of Iowa announced the formation of a committee that is tasked to review and make recommendations to improve the Iowa caucuses. In addition to making improvements to the caucus process in Iowa, the committee’s larger focus is to make recommendations that will help Iowa retain its privileged First-in-the-Nation status [...]
When the Republican State Central Committee meets in Des Moines on Saturday, Matt Strawn’s three years at the helm of the Republican Party of Iowa will officially end. Strawn resigned his chairmanship of the party after badly botching the announcement of the certified caucus results, which gave the caucus institution a lot of negative press. [...]
The Republican Party of Iowa is mum on a report that 20 votes were mistakenly given to Mitt Romney in an Appanoose County precinct at Tuesday night’s caucuses. Edward True, a Ron Paul supporter who overlooked the ballot counting process at his precinct, said that Romney received two votes, not the 22 that are shown [...]
Urban/Rural Split Even before the Rick Santorum surge, it was becoming apparent that he was going to perform well in the rural parts of the state. What was unclear was whether or not Santorum was going to be competitive in the more urban parts of the state, or how I like to describe it, the [...]