Maybe. I don't think those issues were widely known enough to account for the retention vote difference. https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2010/judicialorr.pdf …https://twitter.com/Grange95/status/795074780600958978 …
Again, gender bias may well be in play here. Just very difficult to tease it out from the vote totals.
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I'm talking about many elections over several decades in Iowa. Yes, some women win elections here but I think there are hurdles.
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I agree with you completely on that point. Iowa has seriously lagged in electing women.
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It's not something I or anyone else would ever be able to prove. I've seen a lot of very good women candidates fall short in Iowa.
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Some of them would have lost anyway but I feel being a woman makes it that little bit harder to win over a small % of Iowa voters
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