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They went from a fairly progressive state, it was only one of ten states Mike Dukakis carried in 1988, to a Trumplican state in 2016 and 2020. That begs the question. What's the matter with Iowa?
jpak
(41,759 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,630 posts)How did they vote for Obama twice, and then turn into crazed Trumpanzees?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)A lot more of the dumber deplorables left.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)Nebraska. It's well beyond politics, it's fundamentally cultural/tribal now to be Republican in those places. I used to live and work in those states.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)I can remember when we had a Democrat as a senator. Now a Democrat doesn't have a snowballs chance of getting elected here. It sucks, and Ricketts is a colossal dbag.
Peace
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)I'll sit on the sideline. I can't compete with you guys.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 23, 2021, 05:06 PM - Edit history (1)
Bends political views the way plants will bend toward the sunlight.
Sogo
(4,992 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Am I right? Wisconsin used to be reliably blue. The Koch Brothers and the Libertarians have changed everything - our entire f**king country has been ruined by them.
moondust
(20,006 posts)of the job Joe Biden is doing as president
June 22:
President Joe Biden's approval rating among Iowans is underwater six months into his term in office, with 43% approving of the job he is doing and 52% disapproving in the latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.
Five percent say they aren't sure.
That's a reversal from the last time the question was asked. In March, by a narrow margin, more Iowans approved of the job Biden, a Democrat, was doing as president (47%) than disapproved (44%).
In the June Iowa Poll, Democrats say they overwhelmingly approve of the job Biden is doing, at 89%. The presidents job performance has the approval of 43% of independents and just 6% of Republicans.
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2021/06/22/iowa-poll-joe-biden-approval-rating-kamala-harris-covid-immigration/7736797002/
Maybe a combination of RW propaganda, years of GQP defunding and attacking public education, deruralization, radical tribalism, TFG's farm relief handouts after his trade war killed off the Chinese market for crops, etc.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Seriously.
Elessar Zappa
(14,047 posts)What explains Obama winning Iowa in 2012 and Trump crushing Clinton in 2016?
ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)https://publicintegrity.org/politics/kochs-web-of-influence/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/06/koch-brothers-group-targets-iowa/12268661/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/06/koch-brothers-group-targets-iowa/12268661/
They are the primary reason the Iowa primary elections were such a disaster in 2012 and 2016 they have so much money they had hired trolls in all the important Democratic precincts.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)Liberal voices may have appeal to a lot of folks, but not if they never hear them.