Iowa radio host is last word on politics

IOWA RADIO HOST IS LAST WORD ON POLITICS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Mark Z. Barabak]
Every weekday morning, from 9 to 11:30, Jan Mickelson presides over the No. 1 talk-radio show in Iowa, giving him more sway over national politics than perhaps all but the biggest names in the broadcast business. Most Iowans live in cities. However, there is plenty of space in between -- long stretches of interstate, endless acres of corn and soybeans -- where the radio offers a welcome companion. From his perch here in the studios of WHO-AM (1040), Mickelson reaches about 350,000 Iowans a week, twice the audience of his closest competition. That may be a pittance by big-city standards. But for a Republican campaigning in Iowa, which traditionally holds the first vote of the presidential race, the program is a must-stop -- and a pathway strewed with hidden perils.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-talkhost7sep07,1,4264834.story
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