The Democratic Party has chosen to write off Iowa — to discriminate against its Democratic voters on the basis of their race, freddoso writes.
As recently as 2012, Iowa was basically a Democratic state that occasionally voted Republican. The political legacy of former Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin was still a very big deal. Three of Iowa's five congressmen were Democrats. Iowa had a very socially conservative Republican tradition, but it also had a strong left-wing populist Democratic tradition.
In the time since, Democrats have been shut out of most meaningful statewide elections in Iowa. With the exception of two statewide offices that have been held by the same two Democrats since I was a child, they have only one recent win . This year, Republicans may run the table on statewide offices. They are, at any rate, likely to win all four of the state's congressional seats while easily retaining full control of the governorship and the state legislature.
But then, it was Iowa caucusgoers who chose Barack Obama, the first black president, over two formidable white opponents. And it did so at a time when Obama was still the underdog.
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