Bleeding Heartland

• Conlin assembling Senate campaign

  The Quad-City Times reports today that Roxanne Conlin is "in the midst of putting together a [U.S. Senate] campaign" and will file papers with the Federal Election Commission next week. She seems to have hired at least one campaign staffer already; the newspaper quotes Mark Daley as Conlin's spokesman. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  

• McKinley stops pretending to run for governor

  Paul McKinley dropped out of the governor's race today to focus on next year's Iowa Senate elections. His move made sense, because the Iowa Senate Republican caucus has never been smaller than the current 18 members. With 19 Senate Democrats and only 6 Republicans up for re-election in 2010, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:52pm EST
  

• Another day, another lie from Steve King

  Conservative activists gathered in Washington yesterday to protest Democratic-backed health care reform proposals. As usual, right-wingers are completely wrong about the substance of the bills, crying "socialism" when the real problem is not enough government-backed competition for private insurers. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a key figure [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:48am EST