What's the matter with Iowa?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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]

1. Too many vowels?

[Sogo]

12. LOL!!

[blm]

2. Evangelicals changing their worship of Christ to the antiChrist.

[dchill]

3. Corn blight?

[dalton99a]

4. Too many farmers listened to Rush Limbaugh

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Limbaugh's been broadcasting for decades.

How did they vote for Obama twice, and then turn into crazed Trumpanzees?

[roamer65]

5. Migration to the larger cities by smarter Iowans.

A lot more of the dumber deplorables left.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. White midwesterners in general have changed--there used to be Democrats in South and North Dakota,

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]

9. Nebraska

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]

7. Very clever responses so far.

I'll sit on the sideline. I can't compete with you guys.

[JHB]

8. Same as most places. 40 years of RW talk radio and 25 years of FOX

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Bends political views the way plants will bend toward the sunlight.

[Sogo]

13. Spot on.......nt.

[FakeNoose]

10. The same could be said for Wisconsin

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]

11. Poll: Majority of Iowans disapprove

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 president’s job performance has the approval of 43% of independents and just 6% of Republicans.
~
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]

15. All the interesting kids left.

Seriously.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. But that's been true for decades.

What explains Obama winning Iowa in 2012 and Trump crushing Clinton in 2016?

[ShazamIam]

16. The Kochnetwork moved in and took it over back in 2010.

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]

18. Go there, turn on your radio or TV, and all you will find is RW propaganda.

Liberal voices may have appeal to a lot of folks, but not if they never hear them.