Posted on 03/07/2010 8:48:15 PM PST by Free Vulcan
MASON CITY, IOWA -- Republican Terry Branstad's lines have a familiar ring as he campaigns to return to the governor's office after 11 years away.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Texas is poised to reelect incumbent Republican Rick Perry even though he has served an unprecendented number of years as governor. Not all incumbents face tough reelection battles. Only a certain kind of incumbent does. Apparently the WaPo can’t figure this out.
How I wish he were running this year.
Ditto!
When is Harken up anyway!
” another state sours on incumbents”
LAME-O media mis-direction.
another state sours on DEMOCRATS.
Yeah...incumbents...that’s it.
Chet Culver is a man only dimly aware of his own existence.
His film council is emblematic of the wasting of money.
Iowa has no clue about how things are in the rest of the nation. They usually get everything and more they want because they are the 1st state that has a say in who gets nominated to be president. This is more power than they should receive.
They get all their corn and pork promises from politicans and we get stuck with what candidates survive Iowa and New Hampshire.
By the way, the racial makeup and demographics of Iowa and New Hampshire certainly don’t reflect the rest of the nation.
Again, they get to screen the presidental candidates for the rest of us. Obviously, I don’t like that. They’ve given us some real clowns to consider over the last several years.
I like the people I’ve known from Iowa but they’re not living like the rest of us.
The Pravda Press lies by omission. ‘Apparently the WaWaPost can’t figure this out’...when the returns in November shows a non-RAT Congress and many more non-Rat Governors prevail it will be totally UNEXPECTED and HISTORIC to the WaWaPost. James Carville will once again declare the opposition party is toast.
I grew up in Iowa. I always felt that it was a very conservative old Dem party kind of state, but I was obviously very wrong.
I can't wrap my head around how anyone in the farming community that I was raised, would ever keep Harkin in office or be pro gay marriage. It's not like Iowa is a magnet for liberal New England transplants like North Carolina.
I am still trying to figure out what happened to that state.
How I wish he were running this year.
______________________________________
In traffic, maybe.
People watch network news and vote for the politician who promises the most goodies.
I've seen these people operate. Sunday morning they are in church, Tuesday night they are pulling the lever for a pro-gay, pro-abortion politician because he promises to send junior to school for free. They have no political principles, they go with the wind and the imaginary free stuff.
Farm subsidies have a lot of pull for 'Rat politicians.
In the 80's the state was gripped with farm foreclosures and their only savior was Harkin and other 'Rats. Then you have FarmAid making it a national charity and it couldn't have been more anti Reagan if you tried.
But then, for the entire state to go to a socialist candidate (Obama) was a real shock.
Isn’t Iowa the midwest’s answer to California?
As far as the farm subsidies, Iowa’s like any other state in that only a small percentage of the vote are farmers, not enough to ensure Commie Tommy is elected. Grassley gets reelected too, it’s an incumbent thing not liberal thing.
We had no say over the gay marriage issue - the judges decided that one.
The first in the nation thing doesn’t give Iowa that much power. Look at the ones they’ve chosen and how many have ended up President. If anything, Iowa tends to weed out the flash-in-the-pans.
Iowan’s are generally populist not liberal, which means liberals and conservatives can capture their vote if they articulate the message well. We flip party control all the time.
I will admit that Iowa politically is a strange state - it throws me for a loop on a regular basis.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.