Are Iowa and Ohio now red states?

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Perhaps light red states, though let's not forget that Obama won Iowa by nearly 10% in 2008.

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Perhaps light red states, though let's not forget that Obama won Iowa by nearly 10% in 2008.

He won by 7 overall. Clinton will win by 1-2 and Iowa went to Trump by 10.

Yes, but my point was that Iowa is very elastic.

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Iowa may be more "red" than "purple" at this point, but I don't think the 2018 results support the idea of it being much "redder" than Ohio. There was no Senate race, so we don't have a good point of comparison there, but Republicans won OH-GOV by more than IA-GOV, and IA-GOV technically did have an incumbent™. They're both probably only winnable in a very good year for Democrats, but I think it would take a larger wave, and, more importantly, and economic crisis of some kind for Democrats to win Ohio back.