In 1975, political consultant Tim Kraft’s job was to turn “Jimmy who?” into Jimmy Carter, the bona fide presidential ...

Iowa Democratic caucuses, the first test of electoral strength in the nation. Carter spent a lot of time in small towns talking to locals while pointing out he was a fresh voice with no ties to ...

Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter solidified Iowa as the place for presidential candidates to make their mark in 1976.

Jimmy Carter's 1976 Iowa Caucus win established the state as a proving ground for presidential hopefuls. Carter's team leveraged grassroots organizing and capitalized on media attention ...

Al Gore and George W. Bush claim victory in the first in the nation Iowa caucuses. It was the first voting event in the 2000 presidential campaign. A bill introduced in the Minnesota Senate would ...

Residents frustrated by city response to Union County flood Iowa was the first state to set Trump on the course back to the ...

(Washington D.C.) After U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the chair and founder of the Senate DOGE Caucus, highlighted the issue of a federal workforce that has been chronically absent from the office ...

But Kraft had read about George McGovern’s extraordinary 1972 Democratic primary campaign, which saw the little-known senator ride a surprise showing in the Iowa Caucuses to the nomination.