This is how we start taking the country back, from the ground up

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42. It's not a strong argument to make on its own

You also have to point out that the job hasn't been well executed the whole time. We leave them an opening if we let them say that the reason Iowa's voters have left the job in Republican hands for 50 years is because Republicans have been doing such a wonderful job for 50 years. Iowa's voters need to see why they Republicans have been doing an ever worse job--complacency leads to lax enforcement which leads to corruption, which Rob has been so effective in combating. We have the more complicated argument to make. All they have to say is "Iowa has been voting for Republicans for this job for fifty years because they know we've been so good at it for 50 years." It requires a longer explanation to lay out why that is such a flawed argument, and people like simplistic explanations, even often preferring them to the truth (2016, e.g.).