Precinct 23 – the best attended Republican caucus among 86 Linn County precinct caucuses – remains a Mitt Romney stronghold, even more so than four years ago. Romney garnered 160 votes tonight among 380 cast, or 42 percent of the total. Those numbers are improvements over ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Newt Gingrich on Monday said Rep. Ron Paul did not rate as a serious candidate for the White House while he called Mitt Romney a “serious person” who he said has resorted to a “level of dishonesty” in an ad-war campaign against ...