Is Iowa a lost cause for the GOP this year?
Didn’t McCain come out against ethanol?
Obama’s been pretty adept (bearing in mind this is pre-General Election) in casting himself as the same kind of prairie-populist as folks like Tester, Ritter and Sebelius, which, in a place like Iowa goes down very well.
So McCain probably loses against Obama, but against someone like Clinton he’d be a much more competitive figure in a state like Iowa… as against Obama I could see the GOP taking a hit (no idea how big or small it might pan out as by election day) west of the Mississippi, but against Clinton I don’t see the GOP taking that kind of regional hit.
