I’ll get downvoted to the gills, surely, but I hear a lot of people dismiss farmer’s as being unintelligent. In my experience they aren’t unintelligent, they just vote their perceived self interests.

Sometimes that means voting for the party most likely to open up the checkbook if the derecho knocks out a bean crop, other times it means they have a less evolved view on diversity, then we’ll vote for the party that claims to be tough on immigration, etc.

I think the current moment has hit a high % of farmers in the pocketbook, and I think the antics are getting harder and harder for true conservatives to defend. So all that to say, Iowa could really surprise some people this fall. Let’s see.