Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Jeff Patch has been hired by the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) as their new communications director. Most recently, Patch researched earmarks as a budget fellow at the CATO Institute. He was also a press secretary for Iowa Rep. Tom Latham and was a reporter fro Politico, Des Moines Register and the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa. CCP is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the...
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
If you want to go to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and you live in Iowa’s Fourth or Fifth Congressional District, you may be in luck. Republican Congressmen Tom Latham and Steve King are asking constituents who are interested in attending to contact their office by Nov. 28. Each has only a limited number of [...]
iowas newz liter (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I didn't get to see the Ragister until late last night and wasn't surprised by this screw up. In the Tom Latham vs. Becky Greenwald Congressional race they had the vote percentage totaling 101% . They not only printed this on page 2A of the Metro Edition, but also on 11A. That new math must have been handled by the circulation/creative writing department and the scientific community is united in that...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I didn't get to see the Ragister until late last night and wasn't surprised by this screw up. In the Tom Latham vs. Becky Greenwald Congressional race they had the vote percentage totaling 101%. They not only printed this on page [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
As widely expected, all the Iowa Congressional seats remain in the hands of incumbents as Democrats Bruce Braley, Dave Loebsack, and Leonard Bowell, and Republicans Tom Latham, and Steve King handily won their district races. Also, Democrat Senator Tom Harkin dispensed unheralded Republican challenger Christopher Reed. Iowa continues to [...]
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Incumbent 4th District Rep. Tom Latham won a resounding victory tonight over Becky Greenwald, cruising to his seventh term representing Iowa in the U.S. Congress. With 85 percent of precincts reporting, the Ames Republican has received 60 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for Greenwald, a Democrat from Perry. That includes winning every one [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
At a rally at the UAW hall in Marshalltown this evening, Becky Greenwald discusses the differences between her campaign and Tom Latham and makes that final push to get voters to the polls tomorrow. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, [...]
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Saying his “experience and legislative position put him in a key spot for the district,” the editorial board of the Ames Tribune has endorsed incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames. The paper said differences between Latham and his Democratic opponent, Becky Greenwald, are easy to find, as both “toe the party line on most issues.” After [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
In a less than stunning development the Ragister endorses the Dummycrat woman ( Becky Greenwald ) for CONgress running against a long term incumbent ( Tom Latham ), but supports a first term Dummycrat CONgressman ( Dave Loebsack ) against a Republican woman [...]
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Research 2000 for Daily Kos (10/20-22, likely voters): Becky Greenwald (D) : 42 Tom Latham (R-inc) : 47 (MoE: ±5%) We're still sweeping up from the avalanche of Research 2000 polls that Daily Kos released this weekend, but although this one has been out since Saturday, I'd hate to see it slip through the cracks. IA-04, one of our true longshot races languishing down in 'Likely R' and not getting any...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Iowa Election News and Dean Videos Race Tightening for Becky Greenwald Over the weekend, numbers came out for Iowa's 4th District. Becky Greenwald appears to be within striking distance of GOP lackey Tom Latham. DMReg Endorses Obama Also this weekend, both the Des Moines Register and the Anchorage Daily News [...]
culturekitchen (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Here are endorsements for our Iowa readers: Let me introduce you to a candidate running for Conrgess in Iowa. Becky Greenwald is running against Tom Latham (R) in the IA-04 district. Let me quote from her website : "In Tom Latham, we have a congressman who has continually opposed women’s reproductive rights and has given a green light and a blank check to George Bush’s war in Iraq. Together, we will...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
I suspected that Republican Congressman Tom Latham's internal polling must be showing a close race when he put up a negative tv ad on the bailout. Now the first public poll of Iowa's fourth district is out. Research 2000 for Daily Kos found this : Tom Latham 47 Becky Greenwald 42 undecided 11 Click the link for the internals. Interestingly, the same poll found John McCain leading Barack Obama in the...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
I suspected that Congressman Tom Latham's internal polling must be showing a close race when he put up a negative tv ad. Now the first public poll of Iowa's fourth district is out. Research 2000 for Daily Kos found this : Tom Latham 47 Becky Greenwald 42 undecided 11 Click the link for [...]
iowas newz liter (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
We drove through Story, Hamilton and Hardin counties on our Waterloo road trip. I noted several large Tom Latham signs along the Interstate and Highway, but not one for Becky Greenwald . And the scientific community is united in that fact . For what it's worth, there were also several McCain*Palin signs, but no Obama signs.
