With Trump’s low approval rating and Republicans’ ‘self-destruction’, can Democrats take the Senate?

Even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber blue

The county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”.

The moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. Louisa is among a band of counties along the Mississippi River that backed Barack Obama both times he was on the presidential ballot, before, like Iowa as a whole, flipping to Donald Trump in 2016 and growing increasingly Republican each time he was on the ballot.

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13 thoughts on “With Trump’s low approval rating and Republicans’ ‘self-destruction’, can Democrats take the Senate?

  1. The bigger issue here is even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber. That changes the calculation.

  2. Considering even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber, it raises some real questions about what happens next.

  3. Basically the moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.

  4. What stands out is even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber. That is the part worth paying attention to.

  5. So the bottom line is the county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”. Wonder how this will land.

  6. The detail about the county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World” is something people should sit with.

  7. Reading that the moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe — hard to argue with the logic there.

  8. Even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber. Meanwhile the county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”.

  9. On one hand the moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. But at the same time even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber.

  10. Think about it: the moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. That speaks volumes.

  11. The county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”. Meanwhile the moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe.

  12. The bigger issue here is the county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”. That changes the calculation.

  13. In other words even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber. Curious to see how this develops.

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