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IOWA DEMOCRATS WIN SPECIAL ELECTION IN TRUMP +22 DISTRICT
Iowa Starting Line ^ | 8/9/17

Posted on 08/09/2017 7:03:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Iowa Democrats pulled off an impressive and important victory in a Southeast Iowa special election this evening, boosting the party’s hopes that 2018 could be a bounce-back year. Democratic veterinarian Phil Miller of Fairfield comfortably defeated Republican farmer Travis Harris of Davis County, 4,021 to 3,324 (about 55% to 45%), thanks largely to a massive victory in his hometown of Jefferson County. That means Democrats will hold on to a key rural swing district that Donald Trump won in November by 22 points....

Miller was about as ideal of a candidate as you could hope for in this race: a well-known community leader who locals trusted from his work as a large and small-animal veterinarian. But Republicans ran an intensely negative campaign on TV, attacking Miller for his vote on the Fairfield School Board to keep a policy on transgender bathrooms in place....

(Excerpt) Read more at iowastartingline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: ia2017; specialelections; tds; vote
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This web site appears to be a DemonRat produced propaganda rag. But the election news appears to be accurate.

This guy who thinks boys and girls should use the same school toilets replaces another DemonRat.

1 posted on 08/09/2017 7:03:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

ROTF!!

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt!


2 posted on 08/09/2017 7:05:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Special election for what office, exactly? Dog catcher?


3 posted on 08/09/2017 7:05:45 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I must have missed the countdown clock on CNN for this election.


4 posted on 08/09/2017 7:07:26 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: wastoute

Read the article.


5 posted on 08/09/2017 7:07:50 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
That means Democrats will hold on to a key rural swing district that Donald Trump won in November by 22 points.
6 posted on 08/09/2017 7:09:31 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Fresh Wind

If a “professional journalist” can’t manage to get the relevant facts in the first paragraph then the entire piece is irrelevant. Sorry.


7 posted on 08/09/2017 7:10:12 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow a democrat seat stayed democrat, that is big news LOL


8 posted on 08/09/2017 7:10:21 AM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: Arm_Bears

CNN is sad that THEY missed their countdown clock, on this one. Too busy setting up their ‘bunker’, in HI.


9 posted on 08/09/2017 7:10:25 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well, that’s it! It’s all over now! Trump should quit, and, out of fairness, Hillary should be put in office.

/s (need I say?)


10 posted on 08/09/2017 7:10:51 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: SoFloFreeper

Replaces another Dhimmicrat? Well hells belles......what are they talking about. A waste of bandwidth from whatever digital fish wrapper posted this.


11 posted on 08/09/2017 7:11:45 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: wastoute

It’s a blog, not a newspaper.


12 posted on 08/09/2017 7:12:42 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So a Democrat holds a Democrat seat?


13 posted on 08/09/2017 7:13:01 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: wastoute

ELECTION IN TRUMP +22 DISTRICT, wastoute wrote:
If a “professional journalist” can’t manage to get the relevant facts in the first paragraph then the entire piece is irrelevant. Sorry.


This^^^

I’m on information overload. I don’t read every article in its entirity that comes by my desk unless the writing is superlative. That is rare.


14 posted on 08/09/2017 7:13:08 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is interesting that early voters made a huge difference—1886 Democrat, 376 Republican, which is more than the overall vote differential. I wonder if there were any shenanigans involved here, although the article claimed that there was a strengthened voter ID law in place.


15 posted on 08/09/2017 7:13:23 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Fresh Wind

Just [expletive deleted] tell us. Iowa House it turns out. You could have answered the question in fewer characters than being smarmy.


16 posted on 08/09/2017 7:13:45 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SoFloFreeper
So in the last week we gained one Governorship (West Virginia Governor flipped from Democrat to Republican) and democrats held on to one democrat seat...in the "mighty" Iowa statehouse.

Yep, those democrats are on the rise.....

17 posted on 08/09/2017 7:14:29 AM PDT by apillar
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To: robroys woman

As a writer of articles for a junior high newspaper I learned you gotta get the 5 Ws in the first sentence or two.


18 posted on 08/09/2017 7:15:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: kabar

So the filthy rats hung on to a seat, and now declare Trump is finished because they barely one a seat they already controlled.

If anything the 22 points tells me a lot of Democrats crossed over for President Trump.


19 posted on 08/09/2017 7:17:32 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: SoFloFreeper

Perhaps the Trump voters had something better to do…like going fishing…instead of wasting time on this nothing-burger election.


20 posted on 08/09/2017 7:17:47 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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