Five Races Where Democrats Could Score Shocking Upsets (IA 4th)

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Michigan’s First...

Wisconsin’s Sixth...

Iowa’s Fourth

Democrat J.D. Scholten: $271,000
Republican incumbent Steve King: $76,000

I’m lumping these three districts together for a few reasons:

Democrats Not Named Hillary Clinton Can Win in These Districts. In 2008, Barack Obama won Wisconsin’s Sixth and Michigan’s First while only losing Iowa’s Fourth by 2 percent. And in the past year Democrats have run well ahead of Hillary Clinton’s margins in elections in every one of these districts. They all still lean Republican in even the best of conditions but…

Their Incumbents Are Weak. Steve King has been aping talking points from The Turner Diaries for decades, but he’s gotten worse since Trump is elected. Western Iowa is socially conservative, but I suspect a majority of them voted for King out of party loyalty and at the very least tune him out when he starts going on about how great European ethno-nationalists are. Maybe, just maybe, 2018 will be the year where they’re finally embarrassed enough to send him packing now that our big wet president has brought the ugliness of the far right so neatly into focus.

...https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdnxy/five-2018-races-where-democrats-could-score-shocking-upsets

Maybe, just maybe...

https://www.scholten4iowa.com/