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IC Dems fill night with cries of joy
11/05/08 | BY OLIVIA MORAN
At 10 p.m., “Yes we can” became “Yes we did.” And screams of joy hit the ceiling of the Iowa City Sheraton ballroom as projector screens announced Sen. Barack Obama’s victory...read more
Smooth sailing at the local polls
11/05/08 | BY KATIE HANSON
While Toledo, Ohio, police donned riot gear for any prospective clashes at the polls, all was quiet on the Johnson County front during Election Day...read more
Harkin rolls, wins 5th term
11/05/08 | BY AMANDA McCLURE AND LAUREN SIEBEN
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa defended his seat in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, as Democrats across the country rode a blue wave that solidified their margins in both houses of Congress and won them the White House...read more
Loebsack glides to re-election in 2nd
11/05/08 | BY SHAWN GUDE, MARY HARRINGTON, CLARA HOGAN, AND LAURA KLAIRMONT
Democrat Dave Loebsack soundly defeated Republican opponent Marriannette Miller-Meeks Tuesday night, part of a continuing Democratic wave that started in 2006...read more
Mascher thunders to huge victory
11/05/08 | BY KELLI SHAFFNER
Although Mary Mascher won re-election, as of press time, she wasn’t sure if the fight had been won. Because she didn’t see her opponent as a “serious bet,” she said, she focused on keeping Democratic control in the Iowa House. But even after the win, she didn’t know if state Democrats had won enough seats...read more
Veteran Slockett brushes past challenger
11/05/08 | BY TESSA McLEAN
Tom Slockett will remain the Johnson County auditor for yet another four-year term. Slockett took 65 percent of the electorate with 38,477 votes, while his main opponent, Hanna Gugliuzza, garnered 35 percent on 20,653 votes...read more
Conservation bond passes
11/05/08 | BY MIKE MCDONALD
UI students helped push a local environmental initiative past the required 60 percent on Tuesday, narrowly approving the Johnson County Conservation Bond with 61 percent of the vote...read more
Iowans give ‘idiot’ the ax
11/05/08 | BY PETER GUSTIN
Stephen Trefz works with between 1,500 and 2,000 mentally disabled patients every year, and he doesn’t look at them as idiots — they’re people...read more
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Obama for real change, uncommon leadership
11/04/08 | DI EDITORIAL BOARD
When choosing a leader to take us into the next four years, there are a litany of interests to account for. Who would best command us out of Iraq? Who would succeed in leading us away from harrowing economic turbulence? Who would repair our national image to the greatness generations before us have sacrificed so much to maintain? Which candidate could guide our nation into a stronger position in the global economy, creating jobs, and elevating the level of education, all while placing us on the right track to eliminating our national debt?... read more
DI Editorial Board endorsements
11/03/08 | DI EDITORIAL BOARD
When Iowans go to the polls on Nov. 4, we have important offices in addition to the presidency to fill. Those elected to all national, state, and local offices make decisions that affect every constituent... read more
Biting the hand that feeds me
11/04/08 | BY NEAL SCHUETT
To those that think Obama is the American messiah sent to reform Washington, you are setting yourself up for great disappointment. It's still Washington and unless we as citizens push for reform and elect reform-minded candidates it's unlikely much will happen. The first rule of politics is to look after #1.... read more
Sound and furry
11/04/08 | BY BEAU ELLIOT
So this is the world we live in. On one moment on the radio (BBC, if you must know), Donald Trump is proudly announcing, “This is an important golf course.”... read more
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Putting the politics back into the music
10/29/08 | BY MERYN FLUKER
In step with his campaign’s theme of firsts, Obama traversed more new political territory in September, when his organization released an official soundtrack. Titled Yes We Can: Voices of a Grass-Roots Movement, the album features Obama-supporting artists, including John Mayer, West, and Sheryl Crow. Obama’s visible embrace of music and musicians nods to a time when music moved and motivated people, providing a score to social change... read more
The election's the best programming on TV
10/29/08 | BY MELEA ANDRYS
The election is by far the most talked-about show of the here and now, and for good reason. Of course, we can look at the obvious — it’s time for a change in our country’s leadership, which is always an important and newsworthy event. But with “Election ’08,” political coverage has slowly overtaken virtually every media outlet, from the tired and true pundits to our fuzzy early morning talk-show hosts to the relatively new world of the blogosphere and YouTube. It’s official: “Election ’08” has permeated our collective social reality... read more
Second City second only in name
10/09/08 | BY KATHLEEN SERINO
Anyone who has passed the Englert Theatre lately has probably noticed the posters of John McCain and Barack Obama: The two nominees' mug shots look as if a mad marker with ulterior political motives scribbled all over them. If the artwork has angered or humored passersby, well, that was the point - the posters were the product of Second City for its new red, white, and blue revue, DeFace the Nation, which will stop at the Englert Theatre tonight through Oct. 12... read more |
Ten months after start in Iowa, Obama wins presidency
11/05/08
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an Electoral College landslide that overcame ethnic barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd estimated at nearly a quarter-million people...read more
Obama wins Iowa; secures seven electoral votes
11/04/08
DES MOINES (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama has won Iowa's seven electoral votes, claiming a crucial swing state and scoring yet another win in the state where precinct caucuses in January put him on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination... read more
Bittersweet Election Eve for Obama
11/04/08
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Barack Obama called the last day of his presidential race "bittersweet." He carried himself with the confidence of a candidate who sensed victory after an intense, two-year campaign and learned that the woman who helped raise him wouldn't get to see the outcome... read more
Palin rallies supporters in Ohio, Missouri
11/04/08
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin offered optimism to a boisterous crowd in an Ohio Democratic stronghold and pepped up a huge rally in conservative central Missouri on an election eve dash through five contested states... read more
Obama wins in earliest vote
11/04/08
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on... read more
Biden rallies suburban MO Democrats
11/04/08
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden made a last-minute pitch for swing-state Missouri on Monday, vowing that he and Barack Obama would "re-establish the middle class" by focusing on job creation and helping homeowners facing foreclosure... read more
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