No, it's Iowa

What the Iowa?

With another upset win this week (Wisconsin) Democratic enthusiasm and confidence continues to grow for the elections this November.  I, however, after the 2016 election fiasco (Hillary was a lock for President, Dems were going to win back the Senate) have pretty much become the Doubting Thomas of Democrats:  I'll believe we're going to win when we actually win the race.  The poll numbers all too often look much better for us than the actual result, and conversely, republican poll numbers seem to look worse than they actually turn out to be.

Still...

After the past couple of elections, I have begun to believe that Iowa, for Democrats, is going the way of Missouri.  Joni Ernst absolutely crushed Bruce Braley in the 2014 Iowa Senate race, we pretty much get our clocks cleaned in three out of the four U.S. Rep races, and Donald Trump won easily over Hillary Clinton--the math just doesn't look good.  We're getting beat and we're getting beat badly.

Cue, however, to this week.  Both of their Senators, Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley, had townhalls in their home state this week...and they both went about as badly as they possibly could--in republican friendly rural areas.  Ernst sounded Palinesque as she tried to explain Trumps racist comments about shithole countries by noting that Norway was close to Russia.  She pretty much got laughed out of the room.  Grassley kept trying to deflect questions about Trump's competency which his constituents were having no part of, and even worse, when asked if he would promise not to cut Social Security or Medicare, Grassley refused.  Can't you just see his next opponent already filming the political ads for that colossal mistake?

Who knows?  Maybe there is something magical in Iowa's cornfields that brings the dead back to life to play ball....

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee