Top 10 possible 2024 Republican White House candidates in Iowa
Our coverage of the 2024 presidential election started — for me, at least — on Oct. 1, 2020 — well over a month before the Nov. 3 election. U.S. Sen. [...]
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Posted November 04, 2020in Political Mercury
Posted September 30, 2020in Political Mercury
Strengthening Iowa’s place as the first-in-the-nation contest for the presidency
One of the last questions I asked President Barack Obama during an interview in his second term was this: Would he consider locating his presidential library and museum in Iowa? [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Political Mercury
Centerville Iowegian goes down to coronavirus in 2020
One of my great misfortunes is that I never got to know my grandfather, the late publisher of the Carroll Times Herald, James W. Wilson. Either he died too soon, [...]
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Posted August 05, 2020in Political Mercury
Memo to white Iowans: Don’t take offense; see yourself in the historical moment, emerging Iowa leader says
Many white Iowans involved in urgent conversations on race in the Hawkeye State digest observations and challenges to institutions — business, political or educational — as insults to them personally, [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Political Mercury
He saved us from deadly defective products
Walk a box store or surf a retailer’s website with one of our nation’s top product safety advocates, and you’ll see some of the horrors he’s dedicated a professional life [...]
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Posted April 01, 2020in Political Mercury
Scholten makes second bid for King’s seat
J.D. Scholten — an Iowa Democrat who rose from obscurity to national prominence with a near-miss challenge to U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, two years ago — has filed nomination [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Political Mercury
Greenfield positioning herself as ‘feisty farm girl’ in bid to challenge Ernst
Win or lose, primary or general, Des Moines businesswoman Theresa Greenfield rolled off one of the better observations about small-town living I’ve heard, a comment that shows she understands the [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Political Mercury
The exclusion of rural Iowans in politics
“Step aside, hick,” the urban Democrats can tell us. Talented rural Democratic candidates for the Iowa Statehouse with deep wells of connectivity in their communities — like Stuart’s Warren Varley, [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Political Mercury
A coffeehouse Q&A with Biden
The former vice president talks small-town retail, future of ag and nuclear arms. American agriculture can get to net-zero carbon emissions and make money doing it while still feeding the [...]
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Posted December 04, 2019in Political Mercury
AOC’s straight talk rocket fuels Democrats
Scholten “talks common” in Iowa’s small towns. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and a politician with an instinctive connection to younger and blue-collar voters, called [...]
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