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Related: About this forumFive Races Where Democrats Could Score Shocking Upsets (IA 4th)
Michigans First...
Wisconsins Sixth...
Iowas Fourth
Democrat J.D. Scholten: $271,000
Republican incumbent Steve King: $76,000
Im lumping these three districts together for a few reasons:
Democrats Not Named Hillary Clinton Can Win in These Districts. In 2008, Barack Obama won Wisconsins Sixth and Michigans First while only losing Iowas Fourth by 2 percent. And in the past year Democrats have run well ahead of Hillary Clintons margins in elections in every one of these districts. They all still lean Republican in even the best of conditions but
Their Incumbents Are Weak. Steve King has been aping talking points from The Turner Diaries for decades, but hes gotten worse since Trump is elected. Western Iowa is socially conservative, but I suspect a majority of them voted for King out of party loyalty and at the very least tune him out when he starts going on about how great European ethno-nationalists are. Maybe, just maybe, 2018 will be the year where theyre finally embarrassed enough to send him packing now that our big wet president has brought the ugliness of the far right so neatly into focus.
...https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdnxy/five-2018-races-where-democrats-could-score-shocking-upsets
Maybe, just maybe...
https://www.scholten4iowa.com/
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Five Races Where Democrats Could Score Shocking Upsets (IA 4th) (Original Post)
progressoid
May 2018
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leftieNanner
(15,701 posts)1. Please, oh Please, oh please
I would love to see Steve King defeated!
Vile creature.
rurallib
(63,207 posts)2. I think Iowa 01 is a lean dam right now and Iowa 03 may be a toss up
Taking King out would be sweet.
Giving Loebsack some colleagues would be wonderful.
progressoid
(50,753 posts)3. I'm kind of shocked that King only has 76K cash on hand.
I just went to open secrets to confirm. $76,034.00
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00025237
District 3 is looking tight but Young is a slippery one. And he has a shit ton of money.
47of74
(18,470 posts)4. Yeah we need Rod Blum out bad.