Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue

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1. "No state in the nation swung as heavily Republican between 2012 and 2020 as Iowa"

The loss of a Tom Harkin there and the rise (and promotion) of racist freaks like Steve King and his ilk, helped to bring the state to its bottom-of-the-barrel knees.

The timing from 2012 on, was a direct result of the misinformation factory that was generated after the 2010 "Citizens United" decision (and the census), leading to a decade of horror.

I would add Indiana in there too when a decision was made to boot the (D) Bayh family from office, as well as Missouri, that moved to loon when their "bellweather" status disappeared. OH is going the same way, having now deep-sixed their own "bellweather" status in 2020 when it comes to electing Presidents, after decades of bragging about their role in predicting who would win that highest of offices.

The "identity politics" excuse is nothing more than a manufactured outrage that the average person didn't really care about or focus on until the GOP loons decided to highlight it as "bad", and something that deserved more attention than being able to have affordable healthcare or vote without a million hurdles.