This is a great question. It's a small, midwestern state that is vastly white, rural and traditional.
Being from a neighboring state, they have always been an enigma because of their liberal views...you'd think a wheat farmer in Iowa would share much the same values as a wheat or corn farmer in Nebraska or Kansas.
The only thing I've been able to guess at is that A) Iowans like to express individuality, like New Hampshire in the NorthEast. You know, being feircely independent just for the sake of being different.
The other things is a slight air of "superiority" from Iowans. Their school system, being devoid of gangs, a homogenous population, high level of church attendance, solidly middle class and strong parental involvement in schools.
As a result, American school kids are tested against the "Iowa Standardized Test", which is to imply that they have the best education, and we all need to see how we stack up to them.
In other words, Iowa has become the elitist blue hole in the middle of a see of midwestern red. Since they don't want to be associated with their "overly traditional" neighbors, they seem to out of spite try to prove their progressiveness by being "elightened liberals".
They also are safetly isolated from most impact their liberal votes will have...they could vote communist and they are so remote and landlocked that no one would bother them. The rest of us have to pay for their "progressive socialism".
Perhaps it was Obama's youth, vigor and oratory and maybe because they were looking for change.
Donald Trump won Iowa's 6 electoral votes in the 2016 election. The popular vote count was Donald Trump 800,983 and Hillary Clinton 653,669.
No, you don't have to be a registered democrat to vote in the primary.
you can vote for the party of your choice.
a democratic vote. a democrat is a type of political party in the united states. a donkey represents democrat and an elephant represents republican. I must disagree with this first answer. A Donkey Vote is not a democratic vote or a vote for a democrat in America. It is when a person votes for the candidate that is the first one listed on the ballot.
Vote Democrat!
the majority of blacks vote democrat the majority of whites vote republican hispanics are not as clean cut as blacks but the majority vote democrat
No. You may be limited in your choice of primary candidates, but you can vote for anyone in a general election.
Democrat 54.6% of the vote went to Obama
why can't you vote in the primary election for either a democrat or a republican if you register as a republican? would it not be better to register as a democrat and be able to vote either way than to register as a republican and be limited?
yes, it will go to the democratic party. that is no grounds for anyone to call you a democrat, if that is your example.
in Iowa
Of coarse.