Posted on 04/11/2022 6:27:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — In 2008, this overwhelmingly white state was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad to become the nation’s first Black president. Fourteen years later, Iowans aren’t showing a similar embrace for the woman running to become its first Black governor.
Democrat Deidre DeJear is finding Iowa a much changed place, trending staunchly conservative, endorsing many aspects of Trumpism, with an electorate that is so far displaying little interest in her history-making candidacy.
Educated younger adults who were once reliable Democratic voters have fled rural Iowa seeking opportunities elsewhere. The strength of organized labor has eroded. Obama’s general election victories in 2008 and 2012 seem like distant memories.
The changes are part of a broader transformation that has spread through the Northern Plains over the past two decades, making it increasingly difficult for Democrats to compete in the region even as they make inroads in other places like the Deep South and Sun Belt.
“Times are so different from Obama’s 2008 campaign,” said Dave Leshtz, a veteran Democratic organizer from Iowa City, after a DeJear event in the liberal enclave. “It’s an entirely different state.”
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When you put a president in office that chokes the middle class immediately, you might get some pushback.
Don’t ya’ just love it when the Associated Press is in tears.
Everyone voted for Obama because they wanted to be A Part Of History, and it didn’t matter what he actually stood for. The bloom is off the We’re-Not-Racists-Anymore! rose, so it’s OK for non-Leftists to judge not by the color of skin but by the content of character.
Maybe Obama just STUNK as an occupant of the Oval Office.
Racism is the reason. Seems like the more diverse America becomes the more racist it becomes.
It couldn’t be possible Obama-type policies are an utter disaster, with the evidence all around us, and are being increasingly rejected.
Shunning a black carpetbagger is now racist. I hope the Dems stay on this line of attack. They’re on track to win bigger majorities - for the GOP.
The economy will destroy the Dims, but the real force behind their implosion will be their denial of parents’ rights when it comes to their children, and their grooming of elementary school-aged children.
What are you talking about? This country is being ruined by woke liberal fascists. And very few of them are black.
Oh, so it’s not about experience and/or political philosophy. It’s all about the melanin. Who could have foreseen the democrats running with this claim? “Vote for us, Iowans, or we’ll call you racists.” Yawn.
Might it be because people have finally woken up to the fact that Democrats are the party of hatred and division, pro-perversion, pro-child grooming, anti-capitalism, anti-prosperity, anti-freedom, and anti-Americanism?
I wonder if it has ever dawned on Democrats that constant unfounded accusations of racism made toward anyone - especially anyone White - who might disagree with them about anything could have something to do with them losing appeal among White voters.
That and White working class voters in the Midwest finally realizing that the Democrats had long since abandoned them in favor of bicoastal elites and various grievance groups.
Maybe they realize virtue signaling - i.e., voting for a black person simply b/c they’re black - backfired on them.
You must be having problems remembering the BLM riots and the cancel culture tearing down all of our statues, memorials and monuments. I don’t.
Did something happen at AP? Yes, they were rat hacks before but lately they have really sailed off the rails. They almost make CNN seem moderate.
True....but blackism and complaints about their opponents’ racism is ALWAYS the backdrop. It’s their go-to excuse, and BLM, Antifa, the DNC and ALL of the major Dem players parrot that like there is no tomorrow. The only other ‘ism’ remotely approaching it is the new drive for ‘transgenderism.’
Maybe, but I saw a scary poll yesterday that said 60% of the people blame Putin and the oil companies for the high price of gas, not Biden.
The BLM riots were, of course, terrible and inexcusable. And they were pretty much organized and carried out by black folks.
But here’s the thing. One reason the cities are in the mess they’re in is because they are run by woke, liberal, permissive Democrats. Those Democrats were once mainly white. Now there’s a mixture. Those fools do not demand accountability. And they provide no opportunities,
So I do not see race as the root of all this. It’s filthy liberal policy that is ultimately to blame.
As a side note, Trump understood this. He tried to bring industry back to this country. That would have meant good jobs for blacks, especially city blacks. Trump was the best friend blacks could have had in the White House.
So of course the Democrats had to push him out (see my tagline).
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