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Sand picks western Iowa cattleman Dave Muhlbauer as running mate
Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa journalist. He is the co-founder of the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation and a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, where this article first appeared on The Iowa Mercury newsletter. His family operated the Carroll Times Herald for 93 years in Carroll, Iowa where Burns resides. Democratic candidate for governor Rob Sand has selected Crawford…Read More
Why Iowa won’t join the gerrymandering stampede
President Donald Trump got the ball rolling when he demanded that Texas adopt a new map creating five more Republican-held U.S. House seats. The U.S. Supreme Court escalated the redistricting “arms race” by blowing up what remains of the Voting Rights Act. Since the summer of 2025, nine GOP-controlled states and two states with Democratic trifectas have either adopted new…Read More
Democrats In Iowa, Alaska And Georgia Eye Governor's Mansions (And Just May Win)
In Iowa, Republicans face a potential bruising that could leave the red state looking pretty purple after November.Once a bellwether, Iowa has jagged to the right recently. In 2024, Donald Trump won it by over 13 percentage points, making for the state’s largest margin of victory in a presidential election since 1972. And two years before that, in 2022, it…Read More