Congressman Todd Akin, the Republican candidate in the Missouri Senate race, through a wrench into the party's plans to regain the Senate majority after his ill-advised comments about raped caused uproar from voters and politicians alike. In a televised interview on August 19th, Akin mistakenly comm...
On November 4th 2014, Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, defeated her Democratic opponent, Representative Bruce Braley in the race for a seat vacated after 30 years by liberal Democrat and long-time ally of organized labor, Tom Harkin. Come January, Ms. Ernst will be the first woman from Iowa to ser...