"Iowa's 1st" covers battleground race

I've long realized that the Senate race in the Iowa 1st District (for the seat being vacated by Jim Nussel in order to run for governor) promises to be a barn-burner with obscene amounts of money involved and the national Democrats fighting to switch the district into their column and the Republicans equally determined to hold on to it.

I've always wanted to give the race as much coverage and attention as possible, (as well as other Iowa races), but unfortunately, like so much in the area, the river seems to be a huge divide where politics are concerned as much as it is in other areas. I don't hear much about the goings on across the river, and find that I don't look around for information about it as much as I should.


Enter the blogger known as "Scoop" (an appropriate name for the aspiring blogger if I ever heard one) and his "Iowa's 1st" blog. As if an answer to my prayers, it's a blog devoted to the whole of the 1st District, which covers most of eastern Iowa as shown in the map to the left, and spans 12 counties including Scott.

Though it's been up since January of this year, "Iowa's 1st" has escaped my radar. I noticed that John Beydler had added it to his growing list of local blogs on the QC Online blog digest page and checked it out.

It's been added to the blogroll in the sidebar, so take a look at it often to see how this race is developing.