Iowa evangelicals must be different than the Mississippi evangelicals I was raised around.
If a Southern Baptist preacher in Mississippi tried to tell his congregation who to vote for, he'd be knocked out of the pulpit within a week.
Especially if he referred to half the congregation's preferred candidate as a "wicked man." LOL
Must be lingering resentment over Reconstruction. Those feisty Southerners don't take direction from anyone except their boss and their wife.
According to 2ndDivisionVet, they follow pastor, heard mentality. Iowans are not independent thinkers.