2000 election results to the left, 2004 results to the right.
Note the colors are blue for Republican, red for Democrat, the traditional colors before the enemedia screwed them around.
I believe Pres Bush carried every county in Iowa in '04, so that comment doesn't seem correct.
Fox analysts are really a bunch of light weights. Just pushed McCain! New Hampshire may be the only state McCain can win. Huckabee may not do as well in other states as well.
Iowa is a populist state, which translates as liberal when the left is flogging populism, and a pro-Huckabee in the present context.
2000 election results to the left, 2004 results to the right.
Note the colors are blue for Republican, red for Democrat, the traditional colors before the enemedia screwed them around.
Bush carried Iowa by a very slim margin so I don’t see how he could’ve won every county.
Iowa’s sort of a strange state in some ways. It’s heavily rural, with no truly big cities (Des Moines is about the size of Chattanooga, the fourth largest city in my state of Tennessee). But it’s not nearly as conservative as Nebraska or Indiana. There seem to be a lot of farmers there who still think it’s 1934 and FDR is gonna send them some money if they vote Democrat.
Combine those farmers with union members in Des Moines & Davenport, and some academic lefties around the college towns, and it’s a closely divided state. The western half of the state seems to be the most conservative.