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		<title>Fundraising Numbers show Challengers with Less Available Cash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of Iowa&#8217;s incumbents for federal office held distinct financial advantages, reports from the second quarter show.  While not all current lawmakers raised more funds than their challengers, all has significantly more money available for their campaigns.  In many cases, challengers had more recently spent campaign funds in primary battles across the state. For U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/07/fundraising-numbers-show-challengers-with-less-available-cash/</link>
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		<title>Branstad: GOP House will Vote for Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Plebiscite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican gubernatorial candidate and former four-term governor Terry Branstad said Thursday that he will urge the Iowa House to pass a resolution supporting a public vote on gay marriage.  Candidate Branstad supports a constitutional amendment to forbid gay marriage and said he expects the GOP to retake control of the Iowa House in the 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/07/branstad-gop-house-will-vote-for-anti-gay-marriage-amendment-plebiscite/</link>
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		<title>King continues string of gaffes with Jones Act claim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican United States Representative Steve King of Iowa&#8217;s 5th Congressional District continued his streak of controversial remarks regarding the Obama administration with comments about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  King blamed politics for the slow response to the spill, saying the Jones Act prevented foreign ships and technology from aiding in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/07/king-continues-string-of-gaffes-with-jones-act-claim/</link>
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		<title>Conlin Wins Primary, Will Face Grassley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roxanne Conlin declared that incumbent Republican Senator Chuck Grassley &#8220;will get the race of his life&#8221; this fall as she seeks to break the &#8220;glass ceiling&#8221; that women seeking high-profile statewide or federal offices have faced in Iowa.   Iowa has never elected a woman to the governorship, U.S. Senate or for any of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/06/conlin-wins-primary-will-face-grassley/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Primary to Determine Senate Nominee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After over a month of early voting, Democratic primary voters will travel en masse to the polling booths on Tuesday, 8 June and decide which candidate would be the best to defeat incumbent senator Chuck Grassley in the fall election. The primary election comes as increased national attention has been given to the Iowa senate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/06/tuesday-primary-to-determine-senate-nominee/</link>
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		<title>President Obama to Visit Southeastern Iowa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Iowa as part of his Main Street Tour, making this his third stop to Iowa since the beginning of his presidency and second stop this year.  The President will stop at Fort Madison, Mount Pleasant, and Ottumwa, which will include a visit to the Siemens Energy Facility in Fort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/04/president-obama-to-visit-southeastern-iowa-tuesday/</link>
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		<title>ISU Students Aim to Cut Reliance on Coal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The student government at Iowa State University voted to decrease campus use of coal energy and push for more clean energy use.   The coal plant on campus has become a target of student environmental activism since at least last August, and the school administration had already changed its policy to conduct groundwater monitoring following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/04/isu-students-aim-to-cut-reliance-on-coal/</link>
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		<title>IDP Raises Over $1 million More Than GOP in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iowa Democratic Party announced that it raised over $1 million more than their Republican counterparts over the course of 2009.  The Democrats also raised about $170,000 more than the Republicans in the first quarter of 2010.  The state Democrats continue to have a large voter registration advantage of 100,000 people statewide.  The next quarter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/04/idp-raises-over-1-million-more-than-gop-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota Senator Klobuchar to Headline State Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) will take a jaunt south to Iowa on 12 June 2010 for the IDP convention, where she will be the keynote speaker.  Klobuchar was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, when she won a 20-point victory over Republican Mark Kennedy.  In the Senate, she sits on the Judiciary, Commerce, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iowacollegedems.com/2010/04/minnesota-senator-klobuchar-to-headline-state-convention/</link>
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		<title>New Website Gets Ready to Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many hours of work, I am proud to present to you the new College &#38; Young Democrats of Iowa website. Besides the new visual overhaul there are a few new features in the works. On the front page you&#8217;ll now see spaces not only for news, but also pictures, blog feeds, event listings, and [...]]]></description>
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