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Iowa swung fiercely to Trump. Will it swing back in 2020?

By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —
Few states have changed
politically with the head-
snapping speed of Iowa.
The question heading into
2020 is whether it's going to
change again.
In 2008, Iowans voters pro-
pelled Barack Obama to-
ward the White House. A
year later, the state's Su-
preme Court sanctioned
same-sex marriage. In 2012,
Iowa backed Obama
again.
By 2016, Donald Trump eas-
ily defeated Hillary Clinton
in Iowa. Republicans were
in control of the governor's In this Sept. 14, 2015, file photo, a worker steams wrinkles out of a US flag before the arrival of President Barack Obama at a town
mansion and state legisla- hall meeting, at North High School in Des Moines, Iowa.
ture and held all but one Associated Press
U.S. House seat. For the first
time since 1980, both U.S. the rural population, and lican since Dwight D. Eisen- of swinging back? “This is an actual correc-
Senate seats were in GOP Republicans successfully hower had won. If Iowa’s rightward swing tion,” Tom Vilsack, the only
hands. painted Democrats' as the But now, as Democrats has stalled, it could be a two-term Democratic gov-
Voters were slow to em- party of coastal elites. turn their focus Iowa’s foreboding sign for Trump ernor in the past 50 years,
brace Obama's signature Trump carried Iowa by a kickoff caucuses to begin in other upper Midwestern said of Republicans.
health care law. The reces- larger percentage of the the process of selecting states he carried by much
sion depleted college edu- vote than in Texas, and Trump’s challenger, could smaller margins and would Continued on Page 4
cated voters as a share of carried counties no Repub- the state be showing signs need to win again.