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

Nov. 16, 2011 Des Moines, IA — Becca Mataloni, a Drake University journalism student, will live blog the event on Thursday. The event will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Pomerantz Stage in the Olmsted Center. It will last approximately 45 minutes. The blog will go live about 9:45 a.m. with color and commentary....

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...

Michele Bachmann poses with a supporter at a September Tea Party Express Rally at Water Works park in Des Moines, Iowa. By Mary Bess Bolling Michele Bachmann fascinates me. I know she’s old news, but maybe it’s because some part of me wants a woman president sooner rather than later. Or perhaps it’s...

  We all know that younger generations are reading less and less, but they know more about presidential candidates than some adults. By Ann Schnoebelen They don’t use vowels. They’re completely unfamiliar with the concept of privacy and are too busy updating their Facebook statuses to figure...