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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
He also quite surprisingly trounced Hillary Clinton there in the 2008 primary.
Romney got crushed by Mike Huckabee and John McCain in Iowa in 2008 and didn't even beat Rick Santorum there in the 2012 primary even though Santorum's campaign was almost non-existent before Iowa.
Iowa borders Illinois. Obama gets out the vote there. He always does better than the polls say in that state.
They aren't passionate about Mormons in Iowa.
If Romney wins Iowa, this thing is going to be an absolute landslide victory for him. Obama will get out the vote there. The Romney turnout is very shaky there.
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He totally schooled Hillary in Iowa. She ran a dreadful campaign, full of negativity, then ran out of cash. Her campaign managers - in my opinion, figured it was a slam dunk based on race and religion( still a lot of confusion back then based on whether he was truly a Muslim or not, if you can believe it) and didn't take the state seriously enough. That and he was running primarily on ending the wars while she was still very much hawkish. An anomaly.