Archive for the ‘Iowa Politics’ Category

With the Iowa ruling, is social conservatism in politics on its deathbed?

There aren’t riots in the streets in Iowa. It seems that Americans are rapidly growing less and less patient with the (shrinking) group of extremist, hypocritical bigots dictating what is right and wrong the rest of us.

Does Iowa suggest that smear politics now backfires?

Romney spent millions in negative campaign ads and he still lost badly. There are reports that Romney lost precisely because he went negative and lost votes because people are tired of smear politics.

Are the days of smear over and will it now backfire on candidates that go negative?