Posted on 08/10/2019 12:36:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's just a few days on the political calendar, but what happens at the Iowa State Fair can echo through an entire presidential race.
It takes on its political significance in the year before a presidential election (that's now). Because most presidential campaigns circle this event in red on their calendars, Washington Post reporters have covered the Iowa State Fair for years. Below is some of what they have learned about it.
Q: Why is the Iowa State Fair important?
A: Iowa is the first state to vote in presidential primaries, when both parties hold their caucuses in January or February of election years. So presidential candidates spend much of their time campaigning in the state, hoping to get a boost in the rest of the primaries by doing well in Iowa. A no-brainer way to campaign in Iowa is to attend the state's fair, which is six months before the caucuses and is held in the state's most populous city: Des Moines.
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“Why is the Iowa State Fair such a big deal?”
Pretty much anything you want, deep fried and on a stick? :)
It’s a big deal because it’s the only thing that happens in Iowa?
Jeanne Crain???
The Dem. candidates are just there to compete in the Biggest Bull and Biggest Bore contests.
Making those pampered princesses humiliate themselves in Iowa is genius.
“I’d like a deep fried stick of butter, please.”
“Do you want stents with that?”
“Two.”
“Sure thing. That’ll be nine dollars and an aorta.”
“Here you go.”
Mitt Ropmney’s campaign found out - the Iowa State Fair venue is “full of land mines”.
And some of these Democrat campaigners may have already stepped on a few themselves.
“Poor kids are just as bright as as white kids...”
I am pretty sure Joe Biden did NOT plagiarize that line.
They are people trailing Tulsi and Kamala for photos of them going down on a corn dog.
How often do you get a chance to buy Kamala Harris a corndog?
Minnesota Joke: “What is the best thing to come out of Iowa?”
A: I35
Ever been to a an Iowa Hawkeye football game?
...or a donkey's a$$hole...
A friend attended the fair today, Amy K. was pushing hate and fear, resorting to the usual leftist name-calling.
A friend attended the fair today, Amy K. was pushing hate and fear, resorting to the usual leftist name-calling.
Sorry about the double post. Every time I post, it ends up a double post.
However, I am disappointed that, to this point these crazy Democrats are not being exposed to the danger of what they will do to the economy of Iowa when they eliminate the livestock and corn-growing industries.
Matt Whitaker was a Hawkeye football star.
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