Tuesday, March 21, 2023

What's the matter with Iowa? Trump snookered old, rural white folks who identified with his racism in most of the state's 99 counties


Perhaps it's notable that Mike Dukakis received the highest percentage of the vote in recent presidential elections in Iowa.

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Headline:  Washington Post
The votes were not only emphatic but were also a sharp reversal for the state: Iowa has veered so far to the right in recent years that its political landscape is virtually unrecognizable from the centrist place that chose Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and was one of the earliest states in the country to affirm same-sex marriage. A joke among statehouse reporters is that Iowa is becoming the “Florida of the North” — without the beaches.

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