Iowa lawmaker's brashness earns kudos
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He's described torture at Abu Ghraib as "hazing," argued that living in Iraq is safer than in Washington and dismissed President Bush's guest worker immigration program as amnesty.
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Iowa has welcomed the nation's top-ranked team into Kinnick Stadium before. But the hype surrounding those games was never this big.
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No. 25 Iowa is having a hard time keeping its tailbacks healthy.
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WASHINGTON _ Young people can make a difference in politics, Sen.
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Barack Obama said his win in Iowa lived up to his dreams. His kindergarten dreams.
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Uplifting appeals largely replaced stinging insults Tuesday as Democratic and Republican candidates did the only thing left to do in Iowa races that are too close to call  -  encourage supporters to vote for them.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Tuesday that his comment about it being God's will that Iowa votes first was off-the-cuff as he defended the state's primacy in the nomination process.
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Tim Johnson is a rare senator who almost never has sought the spotlight. Asked by a local columnist if he ever tires of being described as boring, Johnson replied: Not at all.
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Barack Obamaâs presidential campaign has vigorously courted Iowaâs relatively small number of black voters.
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An Illinois controversy pitting two important constituencies against each other put Barack Obamaâs legislative skills to the test.
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Amid Romney's hopes and Huckabee's surge, he's the forgotten conservative in Iowa's race. But as he embarks 15-day campaign blitz, the former Tennessee senator remains optimistic
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By Sam Hananel  WASHINGTON - On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once - from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.
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A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get himself out of a sticky situation by dropping his opposition to Marshmallow Fluff.
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On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once &#151; from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.
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Facing what is perhaps the climactic election of his career, Connecticut Republican Rep. Christopher Shays insists he does not mind losing his seat because of his longstanding support for the war in Iraq Ã¢ÂÂ as long as he maintains a reputation for personal integrity that has been his political armor over his 19 years in Congress, even as his 4th District in the New York City suburbs has developed a Democratic lean.
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Independents joined Democrats from all corners of Iowa to support Barack Obamaâs improbable candidacy.
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Seldom has there been as striking a case of too much of a good thing in politics as the Democratic primary in New HampshireÃ¢ÂÂs 1st District, in which the convergence of party establishment support behind state lawmaker Jim Craig spurred a backlash that boosted liberal activist Carol Shea-Porter to a relatively comfortable victory.