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Ensign To Iowa

Reinforcing talk of his WH aspirations, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) will deliver the latest installment in the American Future Fund's Conservative Lecture Series 6/1 in Sioux City, IA, the AFF announced today in a release. The event will be held at the Wilbur Aalfs (Main) Library in downtown Sioux City.

Ensign, the recent past chairman of the NRSC, is also scheduled to make stops in Sioux Center, where he will tour Trans Ova Genetics, and Le Mars, for a visit to the Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor.

Nothing like a pol having an ice cream cone on a spring day in the nation's first caucus state to get the chattering class buzzing.

A Las Vegas veterinarian, Ensign is the latest GOPer to make a pilgrimage to IA. LA Gov. Bobby Jindal visited in November for a speech at the Family Policy Center's "Celebrating the Family" banquet. Expect the early state visits to continue. With the GOP struggling to find an effective message -- and messenger -- the jockeying for position in the '12 hierarchy will play out in tandem with the party's soul searching.

UPDATE: For more on Ensign's trip and other signs that the 2012 campaign is already under way in the Hawkeye State, check out this NJ.com story from CongressDaily's Erin McPike and National Journal's James A. Barnes.

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