As in many other rural Iowa counties, presidential elections had been competitive contests until Trump came along.
In 2012, Mitt Romney outpolled Barack Obama by 6.1 percentage points.
In 2016, Donald Trump outpolled Hillary Clinton by 37.6 percentage points. Four years later, he boosted his winning margin to 43.3 percentage points against Joe Biden.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 18.6% of vote in 1992, 10.8% of vote in 1996, 5.5% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 6.2% of the vote in 1968)
No surprise that Trump did better here than he did statewide (51%).
New York Times, 1/8/2024
In Lucas County, a sparsely populated rural county with Iowa’s second-lowest rate of church adherence, Marci Prose, the lead pastor of the Chariton Church of the Nazarene, ministers to a congregation of around 30 people. The church recently moved out of its building into a smaller space that used to be a fitness studio.
When the church hosted a luncheon for the congregation’s senior-citizen members, “the only people who weren’t invited were one woman in the church and my husband and I,” she said.
nSource: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
- 14.9% - LucasCounty
- 38.2% - Iowa
- 33.7% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
- 22.3% - Lucas County
- 17.4% - Iowa
- 16.8% - U.S.
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