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Iowa Down Ballot - a podcast featuring Iowa Writers' Collaborative political analysts.
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Iowa Down Ballot

...a podcast by our members

We have a rotating round table of Iowa Writers’ Collaborative members who have been producing a podcast about political races in Iowa Down Ballot since August. It is found in a separate Substack column because not everyone subscribing to the general roundup is interested in this content.

The Iowa Down Ballot podcast features 20 writers on a rotating basis. This episode was moderated by Dave Buiek, with Zachary Oren Smith as producer, and panelists Barry Piatt, Ed Tibbetts, Art Cullen, Dennis Goldford, Ty Rushing, and Laura Belin

We have two episodes remaining, this one posted earlier today, and a final panel discussion to be held and posted on Wednesday, November 6, after the election. We will discuss legislative and congressional races you will want to hear (or you can read the transcript).

Here is today’s episode:

Iowa Down Ballot
One more week... we hope: Newspaper endorsements, 'non-citizen' nonsense and some races to watch
To endorse or not to endorse… would be the question. But two weeks out from an election, and the answer seems pretty crystal. The The Washington Post has stepped in it. The loss of 250,000 subscribers is nothing to sneeze, even for the masthead’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos…
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Here is the archive of all episodes posted in this election cycle:

IOWA DOWN BALLOT ARCHIVE


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Iowa Writers Collaborative Roundup
Iowa Down Ballot - a podcast featuring Iowa Writers' Collaborative political analysts.
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