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John Deeth

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Title & Affiliation
Local Iowa City blogger
Bio

John Deeth is a Des Moines Register guest blogger who has been featured in publications ranging from the Drudge Report to the Huffington Post. His past affiliations include WSUI radio (NPR) and Iowa Independent. Mr. Deeth and his trademark raspberry beret were a frequent presence on the 2007 Iowa caucus scene. He is a political activist in Johnson County and the Democratic Party, and ran for the Iowa legislature in 1996. The John Deeth Blog, recently listed as one of the top state-level political blogs by the Washington Post, has been published since Dec. 31, 2002. Mr. Deeth’s writing interests include electoral politics in general and Iowa politics in particular, popular music and culture, and technology.