Iowa Parties to Rotate Leadership Roles
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Republicans and Democrats in the evenly divided Iowa Senate agreed after intense bargaining to alternate leadership each week.
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Democratic leaders have a wish list a mile long as they ponder a successor to Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The person they pick will be the first sign of where the party is headed after agonizing White House and Senate losses last month.
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Each Iowa senator has the potential to chair a committee, depending on which party has the majority of seats. ALASKA: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was appointed to her seat by her father when he was elected
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For Iowa's moderate  Republicans, the final days of a heated campaign to win the  party's nomination for next year's U.S. presidential election  are a painful reminder of their own second-class status in the  party.
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Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Saturday the large turnout for the Iowa caucuses indicates Americans are looking for a Democrat to run the White House in 2008, but he added that the party still has to work to make that happen.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 21 -- For three decades, the Republican presidential nominating contest has served to unify the national party's coalition of social, economic and foreign policy conservatives in advance of a general election fight with Democrats.
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So what if they're running to be leader of the free world. The Democratic presidential candidates remain at the mercy of party leaders in four states &#151; Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina &#151; who want to keep other states from infringing on their exclusive right to hold nominating contests in January.
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Tom Harkinâs annual steak fry is a key indicator of how the Iowa caucuses may play out next January. Let the Democratic jockeying begin.
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When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules.
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The race for the White House moved to New Hampshire on Friday marked by a clear call for change delivered by voters in Iowa's caucuses who backed newcomers Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.
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Don't forget about Wyoming. It's been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday's Iowa caucuses and next week's New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - A clash between Christmas vacations and the U.S. election calendar has left presidential campaigns in Iowa struggling with a shortage of student volunteers to call voters, distribute pamphlets and drive people to the polls.
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Iowa Democrats declared on Saturday the party would remain neutral in the state's leadoff presidential caucuses in 2008 even though popular Gov. Tom Vilsack is seeking the nomination.
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Thursday night's victories for  Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama in the Iowa  presidential caucuses will bring increased attention to the  candidates' trade proposals as they head off to New Hampshire  for round two of the primary season.
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With Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York nearly splitting the delegate count in the race for the Democratic nomination, party leaders have a dilemma on their hands: a tie ball game heading into their convention.
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White House ally Ken Mehlman took over leadership of the Republican Party on Wednesday and outlined plans to find new voters among the ranks of churchgoers and social conservatives.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 14 -- With both parties lacking clear front-runners in the race for the White House, several of the undecided Iowa voters assembled by The Washington Post this week to talk in-depth about the contenders are still weighing as many as four candidates just weeks before the state's f...