Because the Iowa GOP has NO “farm” system. Hence Garsslay and Brandstad continue to be the “standard bearers”. The Iowa GOP sux pretty hard.
Iowa gave us Carter and Zero and almost ended Reagan’s 1980 campaign.
He’s a very down-to-earth guy, and takes good care of his constituents. He’s never met a farm subsidy that he hasn’t liked, but that is what his constituents expect.
The better question is, why does Iowa continue to vote for Harkin, the Fraud’s fellow treasonous conspirator?
Grassley, like Hatch and other odl fossils in both political parties have overstayed their congressional welcomes.
The longer these elitists occupy space in Congress, the further they becomce from their constituents and the more they acquire an “we know better than them” attitude.
Grassley was quite conservative when first elected to the US House in 1976. I remember an article in the Wall Street Journal back then that praised the new freshman Representative
Grassley will likely be re-elected with 60+% of the vote. He has a lifetime ACU rating of 83, which I believe is 10 points lower than it once was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Iowa,_2010#Announced
The Republican and Democratic primaries will be held on June 8, 2010.
Republican
Announced
* Incumbent Senator Chuck Grassley of New Hartford
Potential
* Hog farmer Bill Salier of Nora Springs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010#Chuck_Grassley_of_Iowa
Five-term Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley was reelected with 70% of the vote in 2004.
Grassley will run for reelection. Conservative Republicans suggest Grassley may face a primary challenge due to his lack of support for their issues. Among those is conservative activist Bill Salier, who said “Grassley was the dominant force and had an enormous amount of loyalty. That has so eroded out from underneath him” during an interview on WHO-AM radio.
Grassley is an elitist Rino.. At his town hall meetings he only calls on the elderly with their SS checks in their hands.
Coincidentally, Rush just a few minutes ago mentioned Senator Grassley in the context of the "jobs bill" he brokered with Baucus and the Senate Finance Cmte. today.
Chuck used to be a conservative's conservative but, lately (starting with the Medicare prescriptions, if not before) he's a rube, a laughing stock, sometimes even the Dems' best friend.
It's just sad.
I.O.W.A.
Idiots
Out
Wandering
Around
Courtesy of my big-bad-soldier-man who served in Desert Storm...
No offense to Iowans that didn’t vote for Grass Head.
Because he doesn’t suck as much as Harkin?
Bacon!
I grew up with the Grassley’s. Chuck is far from a RINO. I have felt he has moderated from his original conservatism, however he has a very solid Conservative voting record. He has opposed Obama vigoursly, has went after government fraud very strongly. He is still a small town farmer, thus does vote for the subsidies of his constituents. Quite frankly that is a very hard issue for me. If you grew up on the farm and have dealt with the farm life, it is truly one of the hardest professions, in terms of controlling your outcome. There are idiots that have no common sense that go bankrupt, however you are truly at the mercy of the weather and commodity prices. Imagine the output of whatever job you did depending on how the weather was, and how the stock market was at a given time. He drives an old pickup, and visits all 99 counties every year. He is more in touch with his constituents them most. He still works on the farm when he is back.
Harking in an Iowan in name only and avoids the state at all costs. He also will stand up for what he believes. I totally disagreed but he was I believe the loan Republican that voted against the first Gulf war. However he voted W on the second.
I believe if you knew Chuck you would find one of the most down to earth people in Washington DC.
I love Iowa.
Folks are good, God believing, mom and apple pie type hard working folks.
Countryside is beautiful cept in winter and they are sure lots smarter than the folks in Ohio.
Just compare Diebold and Lefebure.
Diebold voted to go on strike even thought they’d been told Diebold would move to Mexico if these guys broke a non strike clause in yet another contract they voided.
Union pushed a strike so the members wouldn’t have to pay a portion of their medical insurance.
Diebold moved to Mexicooooo. Lots of folks working at 7-11 without benefits now for low wages. Wheras they had good jobs, high pay and medical but they screwed the goose that laid their golden egg. Oh well, good to be a union member I guess.
Lefebure, in Iowa just keeps on working.
It is a testament to the power of incumbency and seniority. IMHO, the Senate and House seniority systems violate the Equal Protection concept (the Clause itself constrains the States, not Congress). Nevertheless, if Iowa wants to keep electing Grassley a la The Swimmer, let them knock themselves out but that should NOT give them more inherent power than Florida’s next freshman Senator, for example. The same deal in the House. Get rid of binding seniority and term limits are no longer necessary.