By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Nov 4, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 11:54 pm Filed Under: 2008 Local Elections, Iowa Politics
Following are updates on races that are particularly important to Iowa:
Tom Harkin (D) is reelected to the US Senate.
Bruce Braley (D) reelected as Iowa District 1 US Congressman.
Dave Loebsack (D) reelected as Iowa District 2 US Congressman.
Leonard Boswell (D) reelected as Iowa District 3 US Congressman.
Tom Latham (R) is reelected as Iowa District 4 US Congressman.
Steve King (R) reelected as Iowa District 5 US Congressman.
Iowa Constitution Amendment passed.
Bill McCarthy (D) reelected as Polk Country Sheriff.
The Iowa State House and Senate races are still not all settled at this writing. However, it appears that Democrats like have a majority in both houses again.
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:35 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Bipartisanship, Economy, Energy, Featured, Iowa, Markets, Recession, US Congress, US Treasury
Talking Heads:
No visible means of support and you have not seen nuthin yet
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The House of Representatives today passed the Senate version of the $700 Billion Bail-out. For now, it’s over. Bush signed the bill shortly after the vote, and we have not seen nuthin yet.
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:32 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Bipartisanship, Economy, Energy, Iowa, Leonard Boswell, Markets, Recession, US Congress, US Treasury
My cohort DJ is going to disagree with me. Just you wait and see.
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Today did not scare me. It did surprise me, because I didn’t think that Congress had the ability to face down the President, Treasury Secretary and their own part leaders all at the same time. (For the votes [...]
I just got home from the GOP Fest fundraiser here in Polk County. I was a bit disappointed.
Don’t get me wrong. I thought the speakers were great, the food was good. The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, gave an encouraging stump speech for McCain and Palin.
It’s just that the event was so lightly attended.
I walked [...]
Today was the first day of the Iowa State Fair. I had intended to participate in the early morning event (but slept in instead) to break the record for the most corn-dogs eaten by the most people at the same time in the same place. Sounds like it was a rip-roaring success, with over 15,000 [...]
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