Embattled Iowa GOP chairman Matt Strawn will step down at the end of next week, he said this morning, citing competing priorities in his personal, business and political life.Strawn has ...
Isabella Santorum, the three-year-old daughter of former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, has been admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Santorum’s campaign aides said Saturday night. Isabella was born with a ...
County Republican organizers have suggested a low-tech way to prevent the embarrassing vote-counting troubles the Iowa GOP caucuses experienced this year: Require three identical copies of the official precinct tally ...
Here's an account of why the ballots in eight precincts weren’t counted in the Iowa GOP's certified vote.
Mitt Romney’s Iowa strategist is on his way to Florida – and he has rival Newt Gingrich squarely in his sights. David Kochel said he intends to tell Florida voters about ...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Primary day at hand, fast-climbing Newt Gingrich told South Carolinians on Saturday that he was “the only practical conservative vote” able to stop front-runner Mitt Romney ...
The winner of the 2012 caucuses, we now know, was Rick Santorum. The loser, it’s becoming clear, was Iowa. The certified results released this week from the nation’s first presidential nominating ...
Lost in the mail, lost in the paper shuffle, and possibly misfiled were among the reasons that Republican leaders in five Iowa counties gave as why votes were ultimately not ...
For now, the history books will say Mitt Romney won on caucus night and on New Hampshire primary night, and that Rick Santorum won the certified Iowa tally and was ...
Reactions to Rick Perry’s campaign suspension on Thursday from Iowans who supported him were mixed. “It was time,” said Kenny Van Dusseldorp, 56, from Pella. Van Dusseldorp told The Des Moines ...
The Iowa GOP chairman said today that Rick Santorum won the certified vote in the Iowa caucuses, but that eight precincts remain uncertified and he can’t speculate on how those ...
Iowa House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, and Iowa Senate Minority Leader Jerry Behn, R-Boone, are both defending the Iowa Republican Party’s handling of the Iowa caucus voting process. When any election ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of ...
Rick Santorum’s spokesman in a statement this morning said the certified Iowa caucus tally, which gives the GOP presidential candidate a 34-point edge, mean that Mitt Romney isn’t the inevitable ...
See a database of certified caucus results, released to the Des Moines Register at 8:15 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.
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The photo finish in tonight’s caucuses shows the folly of trying to pick winners in the presidential race before a single vote is cast. The top three spots in the caucuses ...
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