Why did HW Bush come in 3rd in the 1988 Iowa Caucus? (user search)
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« on: June 07, 2019, 10:29:54 AM »

Robertson obviously won due to his strong religiosity, as Iowa Republicans love religious conservatives. Dole being from Kansas probably helped him slightly as well, and perhaps Bush was just a bad fit somehow? he did lose the state by double digits to Dukakis in the general, after all.
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