Please educate me: I’m not too familiar with Iowa people.
My stereotype of them is that their fundamental mental framework derives from farming, small town and church-going values. This makes it seem to me that they should have conservative values and a great deal of common sense.
This is at odds with voting for Obama.
My stereotype and related assumptions must be completely wrong. Can anyone set me straight, please. TIA.
Like any state there is a range, but I would say it is fairly centrist outside of Ames which to the left, being a college town. For a midwest state they are to the right of WI, IL, and MN, but centrist compared to southern states. They went Obama last time and polls had it as solid Obama & wasn’t considered a swing state until recently. So Romney feeling it’s worth the effort to go there is big news in a good way.