A focus on bread-and-butter issues, not the culture wars, helped an Iowa Democrat win in a red area. His playbook is now ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in a special election last week. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48%, according ...

Republicans also note their own special election victory in the state’s 10th state Senate district, a reliably red seat. And ...

Iowa has already seen one special legislative election so far this year, in Senate District 35, where Democrat Mike Zimmer scored a surprise victory over Republican Kate Whittington in the seat ...

Some words may be mispronounced. In a surprise upset Tuesday, a Democrat won the Jan. 28 special election to fill an open seat in the Iowa Senate. In a solidly red Senate District 35, which voted ...

Week 5 of the 2025 Iowa Legislative Session closed with the first major deadline of the year. Individual legislators had ...

NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2015-2020 Senate election cycle ... the candidates with the Federal Election Commission. All other numbers in these profiles ("Quality of Disclosure," ...

As one news account summarized, “For a moribund party, Democrats in the span of 24 hours are showing some signs of life.” By Steve Benen Headed into this week, Minnesota’s state Senate was ...

Senate Republicans are advancing a bill to give Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate more authority to gather voter records from ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in a special election last week. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48% ...