Is Iowa a lost cause for democrats?

[Sumner 1868]

West Virginia used to be a Democratic stronghold. Is Iowa going the way of West Virginia?

No. Iowa was never as Democratic as West Virginia (Dukakis in 1988 was the best performance of a Democrat except in the 1932 and 1964 landslides) and isn't as Republican as WV is now. Trump did well because of farming and manufacturing issues-the same issues that keep the state Democratic from Dukakis until Obama.

The Democratic-UMWA collapse in WV is very unique in circumstances and was probably the last state political machine that collapsed and can't be compared with anything that exists now.

[Sumner 1868]

I hope so. It's a terrible state. The next Democratic president should eliminate corn subsidies entirely (and with them, Iowa's economy).

The better question is, how do we punish Michigan and Wisconsin?  Their disloyalty was much more disturbing.

Living there is punishment enough.

LOL that's rich from a NOVAer.