1.0 link 25631 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howie-klein/can-iowa-help-turn-congre_b_25631.html Iowa is a pretty purple state-- a Democratic governor (Tom Vilsack), a progressive Democrat (Tom Harkin) and an old-line conservative rubber stamp Republican (Charles Grassley) in the U.S. Senate. There's a pretty even split between Republicans and Democrats in party registration, a 25/25 tie in the State Senate and a 2 vote tilt towards the Republicans in the State House. Gore beat Bush by 1% in 2000 and Bush beat Kerry by 1% in 2004. Pretty even... except for one...

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