The Iowa caucuses are Monday night, the first actual voting in what is likely to be a months-long process to determine the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. And while the Jewish population of Iowa isn’t large, it could play a role if the delegate tally is close, as is expected. Iowa has…
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas won the Iowa Republican caucus, handing Donald Trump a humiliating defeat. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., performed unexpectedly well, coming in third. Rubio had for a time languished low in the polls along with other establishment candidates. Trump and Cruz are competing for the insurgent, anti-establishment vote. On the Democratic side, Bernie…
At an intimate campaign stop in Waverly, Iowa, on January 18, an atheist asked Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio why his recent ad said nothing about policy ideas and instead went into great detail about faith, God and heaven. The questioner wanted to know how Rubio planned to uphold the religious rights of all, not…
As one comedian online, if Hillary Clinton loses the Iowa caucus February 1 to an underdog, it will be the most shocking thing that’s happened — since it happened eight years ago. In 2008, the pundit class was united in the opinion that Clinton was clearly next in line for the Democratic nomination and that…
So where are we now that the decidedly low-tech process known as the Iowa caucuses is completed, all the little slips of paper have been counted and Mitt Romney was ahead by just eight votes? I can think of three basic takeaways and they coincide with the three candidates who have emerged last night as…
“All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There are no Palestinians.” — Rick Santorum
With Iowa’s caucuses set for tonight, Republican hopefuls are doubling down on their rhetoric on the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions in an apparent effort to distance themselves from GOP candidate Ron Paul. Front-runner Mitt Romney, dark horse Michele Bachmann, and the late-surging Rick Santorum all promised a readiness to launch military strikes on…
Rick Santorum, who shocked the political world by coming within a whisker of winning the Iowa Republican caucuses, has long touted his pro-Israel and anti-Iran policies on the campaign trail. But Santorum still faces a tough road ahead as he fights to prove he belongs on the national stage. His ultraconservative ideology, which includes an…
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