Iowans boast that candidates have to come to Iowa, home of the first in the nation caucus, if they hope to sit in the Oval Office. But what role does Iowa play in the race to raise campaign funds?
"Ethical Perspectives on the News," a public affairs program produced by the Inter-Religious Council of Linn County for KCRG-TV9 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tackled the impact of political advertising in its Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, show. IowaWatch participated.
Negative ads did not appear to keep people from the polls Tuesday. In fact, IowaWatch interviews revealed that many voters expect the ads, and ignore them.
Iowans with deep pockets when it comes to making campaign donations are sending some of their money out of state, even to places where their contributions may seem like a drop in the bucket.
Individual political donors from Iowa have pumped more than $43 million into political races the past three years, but knowing the impact of those donations may be hard to determine. The reason: the growth of anonymous donors and Super PACs.
Democrat Jack Hatch’s gubernatorial campaign clearly has been in the kind of steep uphill climb you would expect when running against an incumbent like Republican Terry Branstad, especially when Branstad had 22 times more campaign money than Hatch had mid-summer.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for governor wasted no time digging into the merits of a $100 million tax break that lured a $1.6 billion fertilizer company to Lee County. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and Democratic challenger state Sen. Jack Hatch also lobbed accusations of improper beha
One vote can determine an election, Republicans intent on fighting voter fraud say consistently.
That thought drives a controversial investigation ordered by Secretary of State Matt Schultz and carried out
