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During the 2012 Republican primaries the Republican Party of Iowa partnered with various news organizations such as Fox News to bring a series of debates that were nationally televised, but directed toward voters in Iowa. This national attention is a potential political boon for a small Midwestern state and attracts attention politically to a ...
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. Founded by Slave activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932.
The state's congressional map is roughly divided by quadrants in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest sections of Iowa. The districts were represented by three Republicans and one Democrat from the 2014 elections to the 2020 elections , with a brief period of Democratic control after the 2018 elections.
Iowa has had a Republican governor since Gov. Terry Branstad returned to office in 2011. The party won control of both chambers of the Iowa Legislature in 2016 and has held on to power since.
Ramaswamy, a Cincinnati native, will split his headquarters between Des Moines and New Hampshire as he places a heavy emphasis on the first two states in the Republican nominating process, said ...
By 1980, he was a board member for the Iowa Family Farm Development Authority. [3] His career as a farmer was acknowledged by induction into the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Hall of Fame and the National Pork Producers Council Hall of Fame. [1] Soorholtz expressed support for George H. W. Bush prior to the 1980 Republican Party presidential ...
A 67-member Republican supermajority will be the largest majority the party has held in the Iowa House since 1970. The 35-seat Senate supermajority is also the largest since 1970.
The 1996 Ames straw poll was held at Iowa State University (Ames)'s Hilton Coliseum on August 19, 1995. This was primarily a fundraising event for the state's Republican Party, and only Iowa residents who paid the $25 [1] price for a ticket were eligible to vote. Tickets were available through the various presidential campaigns and the Iowa ...