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Norbert

(7,852 posts)
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:50 AM Oct 2025

Iowa

The state that voted for President Obama twice went all in for Krasvov three straight elections. Here's how they are doing.

This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-10-26T15:39:06.797Z


I thought Iowa would wake up this time around. I was wrong.

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markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
3. And they didn't realize that their Plan B
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:06 PM
Oct 2025

would be to go the way of rural towns across the South after Reagan and become deserted and jobless with crippling rates of meth addiction.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,055 posts)
2. They've woken up enough to convince Joni Ernst not to seek re-election
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:04 PM
Oct 2025

Let’s find a populist Dem willing to kill the filibuster and expand the court (but not focus their campaign on it)- IA is a definite pickup possibility.

SWBTATTReg

(26,399 posts)
4. Interesting! I wonder if there are more maps like this, e.g., showing tRUMP's negative impact on all states GDP?
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:27 PM
Oct 2025

rurallib

(64,828 posts)
5. Among many other things about Iowa I believe that the concentration of extreme right wing media
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:06 PM
Oct 2025

in the state has produced this result. Radio and TV is almost completely far right. Newspapers are pretty much owned by two corporations (which also own radio and TV). The "left" in Iowa is NPR and that is about it.

I think there are two independent radio stations that barely go like 15 miles.

When your populace is hammered day in, day out 24 hours a day with propaganda, what do you expect?

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