Krause needed 3,500 signatures, with at least 100 from a minimum of 19 counties, to appear on the primary ballot in June, but had only about 1,400 when the first signature packets were counted following the Feb. 7 midterm caucuses. Krause said the 2,100-signature shortfall was too great to meet.
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TOM BARTON
Quad-City Times
In early November 2006, Sue Dvorsky stood in a large ballroom at the hotel Vetro in Iowa City and watched late into the night in amazement as the final election returns trickled in.
Dave Loebsack, a relatively unknown political-science professor from Cornell College, had just unseated an entrenched, widely popular 30-year Republican incumbent in what by all accounts was a long-shot campaign.
The victory by the first-time candidate scored one of the biggest upsets nationally in an anti-Republican tide where Democrats took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate after 12 years of Republican control.