Eastern Iowa is home to industrial riverfront cities, small towns surrounded by verdant farmland and a consequential number of voters who were inspired to vote for both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
And unlike many of the president’s Republican supporters, who could never imagine voting for a Democrat, many of these Obama-Trump voters are open to doing just that — meaning that Iowa counties along or near the Mississippi River, and similar ones throughout the Midwest, could once again be key to determining the next president. CONT.
Jenna Johnson, Washington Post