By Art Smith. Posted Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 8:38 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, Tom Harkin, US Congress
This year, the US Senate seat currently held by Tom Harkin is up for grabs. I say “up for grabs” in an attempt to relieve us of the idea that the incumbent has no chance to be unseated.
Harkin has been in the US Senate now for 6 terms (24 years). Without a doubt, he has done some good things while in Congress. Probably the most positive, and the one he speaks of the most, is his authoring of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has also been a big supporter of farmers and Iowa’s universities.
Harkin is also known in the state, like Neil Smith[...]
By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:00 am Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, ANWR, Accountability, Chuck Grassley, Democrats, Drill Baby Drill, Economy, Energy, Featured, Foreign Oil, If you won't vote for us we won't vote for you, Leonard Boswell, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Harkin, US Congress
Crude oil dropped to $105/bbl Monday, down $1.26. After hours the price continued to fall, as of midnight it was hanging around $102/bbl.
Since hitting it’s high at 147.27 on July 11 (that’s still less than 2 months ago), the price has fallen almost 30%. According to most Democrats, this would only be possible if actual [...]
Today is the day we decide who will represent our parties for non-Presidential offices. Where I live (West Des Moines, Iowa District 3) we have only one race that matters for Republicans today (US Senate seat, to run against Tom Harkin… 3 candidates in the Primary: Steve Rathje, Christopher Reed, and George Eichhorn), and I [...]
But Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) thinks it can. Living in Iowa, we occasionally receive a nice email from the Senator letting us know how he is scr- uh, helping us with his work. Here’s his latest missive, arriving just this afternoon…
Dear Friends,
Many working families are being saddled with higher costs at the grocery [...]
I had the privilege of participating as a delegate to my first Republican Polk County (Iowa) convention. It was a great experience. We ended up with significantly more people than expected (usually 50% of the elected delegates show up, we had about 70%+) which had a big impact on our start time and [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:00 am Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Tom Harkin
Evidently, only half of the Obama family is actually proud of their country. Or something. This was probably last summer here in Iowa somewhere (since it appears to be a Harkin event). Do we really want someone as president that doesn’t already naturally show appropriate respect for the flag of the United [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:30 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, Des Moines Register, GOMLP, Iowa, Iowa Politics, Leonard Boswell, McGehee, Other Bloggers, Republican Party, Tom Harkin, US Politics
I am amazed that the Republican Party in Iowa is intent on rolling over so easily this year. In a story in today’s Des Moines Register, we find out that party leaders and potential candidates have essentially decided it’s not worth the effort to put up a race against Leonard Boswell (Democrat-Iowa 3rd District [...]
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