It is hard for me to understand what I think of as good people, the hard working farmers in Iowa re-electing Tom Harkin year after year.
IMHO, the hard working farmers have been paying so much attention to work they neglected politics.
They didn’t realize the “party of the little folk” had taken a hardleft turn towards socialism and even a touch of tyranny.
I meet a lot of them here in FL, retired. They vote Democrat reflexively, for the unions and out of outdated opinions (”My family was always a Democratic family!”).
Obama is busy educating them. I cannot tell you how many friends I have in their forties and such, who have told me they cannot get their parents to vote anything but Demo even though the families are conservative through and through.
Obama is actually changing that. It’s great to see.
“the hard working(and SOME of them don’t work so “hard”) farmers” don’t by in large re-elect “Commie-Tommy” The Dumb Ass POSs in DSM, Ceder Rapids, Waterloo, Davenport, Iowa City, Ames, Ceder Falls do.
“...the hard working farmers in Iowa re-electing Tom Harkin year after year.”
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Similar to the hard working people in MA re-electing Kennedy (in the past) and Fwanks and the the people in AZ re-electing McClown. Some people take great delight in self-destruction.
The answer may be that his hijinks are not reported on in his local press, just like Ted Kennedy’s and Barney Frank’s activities were/are not reported in the the Mass. press. They may be reported in some other paper across the country, if at all.
I am constantly surprised at the news I see in the Seattle press about Spokane (just 400 miles and one huge mountain range away) that is never reported in the Spokane paper/websites. But then the Spokane paper mostly prints AP, Chicago Tribune, etc. news releases. Crazy.