Paul: Don't skip Iowa

For most presidential candidates, the road to the White House begins in Iowa. Since the 1970s, the state's presidential caucuses have served as the nation's first real test of voter interest in competing candidates, and have launched the successful ...

As a general election swing state and home to the first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, Iowa was the "next obvious place," for the Quinnipiac University Poll to start asking questions. The poll, started in 1988, will begin regularly surveying ...

Rick Santorum triumphed with conservative Republicans in the 2012 Iowa caucus; but in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney's campaign got back on track. Photograph: Scott Olson/ My high school teachers and college professors always told me to look at the ...

Over five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldnt support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive. Even as the country elected and ...

Senator Rand Paul will speak at the Iowa Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner in Cedar Rapids on May 10. The fund-raiser for the state party offers Mr. Paul an early chance to introduce himself to potential caucusgoers as he considers a bid in 2016. Mr.

The last two Republican winners of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses say that the GOP will shoot itself in the foot if it softens its stance on social issues such as same-sex marriage countering calls from others within the GOP ranks who say that ...

Documentary filmmaker AJ Schnack is turning his camera's attention to that most hallowed of American political rituals with his new

Barack Obama put himself on the road to winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the Democratic nomination, and the presidency by raising the specter of Clinton-era investigations, polarization, and bitterness. Now hes facing the same thing, with overlays of ...

By Geoffrey Dickens The Iowa Democratic caucus is a full thirty-three months away but that didn't stop NBC's Today show from promoting a possible Hillary Clinton candidacy.