Panicked they might pick the wrong candidate, Iowa voters are asking themselves: What would everyone else do?
Amy Klobuchar greets volunteers at a town hall on January 11 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. | KC McGinnis for Politico
“The fear,” Washington County chair Kimberly Davis told me. “The palpable feel of fear in the air—that we have to select the right person to defeat Donald Trump, and if we don’t, it’s going to, like, echo through the entire country. That’s a pretty intense thing to put on, you know, three million people’s backs.”Penny Rosfjord
Scenes from a President Donald Trump rally on January 30 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. | M. Scott Mahaskey/PoliticoIn Pella, population barely more than 10,000, Buttigieg responded to Cathy Haustein the way he almost always does, unspooling a couple minutes of glossy syntax, chalking up his lower levels of support in other areas andfrom black voters to his relative youth and lack of name ID. He crested to a gauzy pledge to “fix our democracy so that everybody’s voices are heard.
I’ve heard it again and again of late, all over this state, so many Iowans wracked by indecision, practically paralyzed by dread that a choice they once relished might somehow irrevocably alter the arc of an election they suspect could be the most consequential of their lives. Spooked that they might pick wrong, they are searching desperately for the comfort of a national consensus that’s elusive because it doesn’t exist.
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