By Tim Weideman Supporters rallied for their candidates Saturday night across the street from Drake University before the Iowa Republican Debate. Numbers were clearly in Ron Paul supporters’ favor but an unexpected opponent made a vocal appearance Occupy Iowa protesters stood along the opposite...

Drake Student Senate hosted a ‘Politics and Pancakes’ event on Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Olmsted Center for students to talk abut their political passions and engage with media personalities. For more coverage of the event, check out this Storify to see Tweets and interactions with John...

GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum spoke with Iowans at a recent chili dinner sponsored by the Dallas County Republicans in Adel.

Michele Bachmann Avoids Controversy by Avoiding Politics By Michael Rutledge | Drake University Senior Osceola, Iowa (October 23, 2011) Fifty miles south of Des Moines, tucked snugly in a cornfield beside U.S. Highway 69, rests the one-room Calvary Bible Church.  The Osceola church was the latest stop...

Government control and foreign policy dominate discussion at town hall meeting as Paul argues for a return to constitutional values By Jackie Wallentin |  Drake University Des Moines, Iowa (Oct. 23, 2011) – Presidential candidate Ron Paul met for a brief town hall meeting Saturday morning with an...

By Ann Schnoebelen A crowd gathered on Oct.9 in Des Moines to begin Occupy Des Moines, a movement associated with Occupy Wall Street and other spin offs cropping up around the U.S. There were dreadlocked heads and tattooed arms, mom jeans and dentures, socialist worker party members and a “Don’t...

Op-Ed Blog by Kylie Rush “With great power comes great responsibility,” as Spiderman’s uncle once said. As college students, how much power can we really have? Every day we go to classes that are practically determined for us with our graduation requirements. We eat the food prepared for us according...

By Ann Schnoebelen To me, the environment seemed to be part inspiring locker room speech, part Sesame Street episode and part sorority recruitment. The Obama For America-Iowa team convention on Drake’s campus last weekend was my first real inside look at how a campaign works. I really didn’t know...

Compiled by Kylie Rush The RAYGUN T-shirt reads: "Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa." Though this view may not quite be universal, read on for some statements from real people. We know what RAYGUN says about Iowa. We’re introducing our first in a series of quotes about the Iowa Caucuses....

By Mary Bess Bolling At the heart of Florida’s move to push its primary into January is that it wants what Iowa and New Hampshire have—prime influence on the Republican nominee and the advertising dollars that accompany . But Iowa needs to be first. First of all, the Iowa legislature mandates that...