Saturday, November 02, 2024

A Nugget in the Pan Is a Good Prospect


IOWA HAS SWUNG 22 POINTS since June, and Harris is now in the lead.

Amazing.  

Iowa is as rock-ribbed Republican as any state in the nation.

Have you ever *been* to Iowa?

It’s farmer conservative. Deep red. 

Every job in the state is connected to farms, pigs, cattle and crops.

You cannot get elected to home room monitor in that state unless you are pro-farmer and pro-agricultural livestock production.

This is a state with 3 million people, 4 million cattle, and 19 million hogs.

You want to talk chickens? Fine. Iowa leads the nation in egg production with 52.4 million chickens producing 13.9 billion eggs a year.

You want to talk turkey? Fine. Iowa, produced 274 million pounds of turkey last year.

All told, over 6.6 billion pounds of red meat were produced in Iowa last year, as well as 4.28 billion pounds of milk.

If Harris is ahead in Iowa (and she no doubt is, as the Des Moines Register poll is famously good), then the campaign signals from Texas and Florida may mean what the pipe smokers suggest, which is that Texas and Florida are in play.

Iowa!

The mind reels.

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