Iowans have a huge evangelical base. The farmers are balancing ethanol subsidies and their conservative roots. Western Iowa is Big GOP. The eastern part is Dem. The middle (Des Moines suburbs) are in play. The rural part of Iowa will go GOP. Waterloo, DSM, CR
Mac will take Iowa in another close one....
I called all over western Iowa for McCain and very seldom was ethanol brought up. The two issues that kept getting raised were guns and death taxes. Don’t know how many people told me they didn’t want to have to bury their guns so they were going for McCain.