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.
Midwestern nice folks are done with the negativity. He has nothing else but horrible things to say about immigrants, women, black people, Jewish people, you name it. He has no real policy besides 'the cruelty is the point'. I think running with Tim Walz was a stroke of genius and he'll make a great VP. They know who he is in Iowa and about his policies that worked in his home state, and they're DONE with the alternative. Bring on the good Midwestern Dad vibes!!!!
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