(crossposted from my Sassy democrat blog)
The city of Spencer in Clay County, way northwestern Iowa had the dusty feel of a cow town in today’s gusty winds, but they put on one of the biggest and best county fairs in the country… Where better to gauge how much longer deep red IA4 will tolerate too many term bigot and congress member Steve King. First encounter was with the local GOP party contingent in their booth, they seemed lonely enough to even talk to a democrat. Having not seen a single republican lawn sign on the way down, I confirmed that they have plenty of signs and it’s legal to post them. Next building over I found the local democrat’s booth, they were too busy with Iowa voters to talk long. They’re continually running out of signs, lit, etc.. and are quite enthusiastic about their challenger for IA4, baseball player and paralegal J.D. Scholten.
After seeing more tractors than you’ll find this side of the Big Iron show in Fargo I found the best lunch deal was a $3 slice o’ pizza and was enjoying it when an old guy carrying a Scholten lawn sign plopped down at the next table. I struck up a conversation, turns out he’s a retired farmer and he wants a congress member that will represent the district, which he feels King hasn’t… When an old white guy doesn’t think King represents him, King is in trouble!
Made another round through the tractors and queeried the New Holland dealers about their $700 price for a service manual with no success, with their attitude I’ll just wait them out and buy a manual at one of their inevitable bankruptcy auctions. On the way out of the fairgrounds I went by the party’s booths again to confirm my previous impression… Yup, democrats doing a land office business while the republicans struggled to stay awake.
If there’s so little enthusiasm for immigrant bashing King, is any republican incumbent safe?