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The Money Lesson And More From Eric Cantor’s Loss

Money can’t buy you conservative acceptance Number two House Republican, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a six term incumbent,  was soundly defeated by Dave Brat, an underfunded conservative challenger, in their Virginia congressional district primary battle. Cantor was widely talked about … Continue reading

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Scott County Republican Turnout Compared to Statewide and Linn County

As reported yesterday Scott County’s Republican primary turnout rate appears to have been down an astounding 39% over 2010, a comparable non-presidential year with a contentious statewide primary decision to be made. We have not been able to analyze Republican … Continue reading

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Liberal Media on the Iowa Senate Primary

From over the transom, sort of : Roger, MSNBC (their early Sat morning “Up With Steve…”segment) did an extensive analysis of the IA primary race. Guest was Bradovich from the Des moines Register. Highlights: -Joni- 34% -Jacobs-15% -Clovis-14% – Romney … Continue reading

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Media Shots Regarding Senate Race

As others have enlightened us, and upon second reading, there is more to the QC Times “Hip Shots” regarding Monday’s Senate forum than we previously commented on.   That article is credited to the QCT Editorial Board but we might presume … Continue reading

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Senate Campaign Produces a Pox On Two Houses?

This week, on the 20th and 21st, the two large postcard mailings from the Marc Mark Jacob’s campaign appeared in our mailbox. They are shown below front and back. The designs and content are intended as pure attack pieces on … Continue reading

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Senate Forum

The candidates for the Republican nomination to fill Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat met in a controlled forum last night at Bettendorf High School.  All announced Republicans were present which included Sam Clovis, Scott Schaben, Mark Jacobs, Matt Whitaker and … Continue reading

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Veritas Salad — The Establishment, Manure, and Excuses That Are Manure

Insider Questions . . . Does the spitting match between Governor Branstad and his former chief of staff Doug Gross over “Branstad’s leadership”  have anything to do with the differences with  the Branstad – Romney – Kotchel (Red Wing Communications) … Continue reading

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Veritas Salad – by Chef Don

Ah Clarice . . . Here she is again at her best. This is an excellent primer for those self-righteous souls out there who feel sooo informed and so intellectually superior because they listen to PBS and think the foreign … Continue reading

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Shameful

The following document depository and analysis refers to the June 8, 2010 Republican State Senate (S41) primary where Roby Smith and his handler Steve Grubbs of Victory Enterprises used perhaps the most despicable distortions and eleventh hour tactics against a … Continue reading

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Finally The Democrats Are Doing Something About the Weather

From Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working Families: Excerpts with permission. Annotations in bold are ours and not in the original. Democrats Talk About The Weather Last night Senate Democrats launched an unusual filibuster. It wasn’t technically a filibuster because … Continue reading

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