Iowa is “mideast”? AP writers are on LSD.
Iowa GOP has several potential good candidates: Rep. Steve King, SoS Matt Schultz, and Rep. Tom Latham. Romney and GOPe didn’t bother to set up an Iowa organization in 2012, so the ‘moderates’ are unlikely to field a serious candidate, though they will have a couple of second-tier hopefuls.
LOL The USA doesn’t have a region called the “Mideast” at all.