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Iowa

Wellstone ruled

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9. Yes it is,

Reply to usajumpedtheshark (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:35 PM

Nov 2020

all the old timers have long since been buried in some grave yard. Tom Dashel abandoned the Sodak Dems for a Lobbyist life style in DC. Have a friend who was a County Dem Chair and he just gave up trying to grow his Party. National Partly would not give him the resources to keep the flame alive.

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It is more than the hogs that stink in Iowa anymore. [View all] icwlmuscyia Nov 2020 OP

Almost a clean sweep exboyfil Nov 2020 #1

I still don't understand what happened to your state SoCalNative Nov 2020 #3

Corporate Ag businesses, white fear and pro-fetusist religions usajumpedtheshark Nov 2020 #4

let me add the Koch brothers (Americans for Progress) which has dumped huge icwlmuscyia Nov 2020 #7

Exactly. progressoid Nov 2020 #11

Voting against their best interests. Wellstone ruled Nov 2020 #2

Democratic Party is very close to extinction in SD usajumpedtheshark Nov 2020 #5

Yes it is, Wellstone ruled Nov 2020 #9

Democrats have not really been competitive in Iowa since at least 2010 minstrel76 Nov 2020 #6

Summed it up very well icwlmuscyia Nov 2020 #8

One scary thing about Branstad is minstrel76 Nov 2020 #10

"Bob's Bigot Brigade over in Sioux City" icwlmuscyia Nov 2020 #12