Why is southeast Iowa so Democratic?

[TeePee4Prez]

I think it is a big union working class area, where the people understand their economic interests better than most middle americans.

Yeah, there are a lot of factories and industrial jobs in my hometown at least. I went up there at the first of October and Bush was definately winning the yard picket sign war.

Reference PA 13.... <DUCK>

Yard signs MEAN NOTHING!! If you drove through parts of Mayfair, which is a blue collar rowhome section of Philadelphia, you would have found many Melissa Brown signs back in October.  How did Allyson Schwartz win that neighborhood?

[TeePee4Prez]

My theory is that people who own houses and can put up yard signs will be more Republican since they are more affluent. The apartment dwellers will always vote heavily Dem.

See my post in PA 13 thread to avoid people's bitching.