CEDAR RAPIDS – Reaction to President Barack Obama’s two-day visit to Iowa and his calls for an end to partisan gridlock in Washington is split, predictably, along party lines. “I just took it that it was a campaign tour through here,” said U.S. Rep. Steve King, ...

It could be worse. Republican presidential hopefuls could be trying to sell their small government, lower taxes, less regulation and social conservative agendas in, oh say, Hawaii where Democrats have a 24-point advantage over the GOP, according to a new Gallup Poll of the most Democratic ...