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rurallib

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2. I'll try to be short - Culver really blew it

Reply to shcrane71 (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 08:42 AM

Jun 2012

he vetoed two labor bills that he had promised to support. That + the whole 2010 atmosphere.
Branstad always loved the limelight, even though his wife hates it.
Repubs had NO other real viable candidate (the crazy Bob VanderPlaats). Branstad barely beat him in the primary.
Iowans forget easily - we are easy going and forgiving - so the shit job that Branstad did was forgotten.
And of course the media loved him.
So we got him again and a nutcase bagger Lt. Governor named Kim Reynolds. She had 2 years in the legislature I think.

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