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« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2016, 05:58:28 PM »

I want to visit Iowa.  The eastern part seems charming and probably has a great nightlife.  Could probably get there on the cheap, as well.

BRTD, what Iowa city would you recommend for a long weekend getaway?  (Thurs night-Mon)
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« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2016, 06:45:57 PM »

Iowa is one of the last states where the Jim Oberstar/Jerry Costello/Bart Stupak type democrat has a foothold.
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« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2016, 06:46:54 PM »

I want to visit Iowa.  The eastern part seems charming and probably has a great nightlife.  Could probably get there on the cheap, as well.

BRTD, what Iowa city would you recommend for a long weekend getaway?  (Thurs night-Mon)

Iowa City is of course the biggest partying city in Iowa. It's also very close to Cedar Rapids so you can hit up two. Iowa is also full of casinos so you could see if any of those are around.
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« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2016, 06:47:30 PM »
« Edited: January 28, 2016, 07:18:02 PM by RINO Tom »

I want to visit Iowa.  The eastern part seems charming and probably has a great nightlife.  Could probably get there on the cheap, as well.

BRTD, what Iowa city would you recommend for a long weekend getaway?  (Thurs night-Mon)

I'm biased (and not BRTD), but it seems like Iowa City is the obvious no-brainer.  I experience its nightlife every single weekend and have for five years now, and I'm still not bored!  LOL.

As for BRTD, all of those cities voted for Obama in both elections, but all also voted for Rauner in 2014, too.  In 2004, Peoria and Champaign counties went for Kerry (though Bush won the Peoria metro, as did Romney in 2012 ... and Obama only won it by 1% in 2008), but Rockford, Springfield and Decatur all went for Bush.  Obama is, after all, from Illinois.

Anyway, all of that is completely irrelevant to my point: a more urbanized region does not necessarily mean it will vote more Democratic, as evidenced by the WHOLE state of Iowa voting to the left of the WHOLE region of Downstate Illinois, even though the latter is more industrialized.
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« Reply #29 on: January 30, 2016, 06:48:35 PM »

All of those places you mentioned in Illinois DO vote Democratic except Bloomington.

The cities, not necessarily the metro areas. Part of rural Iowa in the Eastern part of the state is in that more liberal rural zone that includes western Wisconsin. It is not as liberal as the Birkenstock belt, but still unusual liberal for rural white areas. So that needs to be added to the mix.

The Quad Cities metro area definitely votes Democrat as a whole and is the most like an Iowa metro area. Iowa being often-blue has less to do with urbanized population and more to do with the culture of the Driftless Area. NW Illinois and SW Wisconsin vote similarly.
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« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2016, 05:29:33 PM »

Iowa is a bellwether state with a two-point Democratic tilt.

If the Democrats win a presidential election…Iowa carries.

Iowa and New Mexico, a bellwether states since its first vote in 1912 (and it is the historically best-performing state for having carried for presidential winners), are the only two states which carried for all popular-vote winners since the 1990s.
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