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Is Iowa representative of the Democratic base? No, argues Sean Illing at Vox. Iowa doesn’t really look like America.
The argument against Iowa, before last night, was pretty straightforward: The Democratic Party is a collection of diverse groups — young people, liberal whites, conservative-leaning African Americans and Latinos, nonreligious Americans, city dwellers, and so on. By contrast, Iowa’s population is roughly 90 percent white, uncommonly old, and heavily rural.
Among the Democrats’ top five finishers, 100% are white, continues James Freeman in the WSJ.
… not one dwells in one of America’s biggest cities and the median candidate by age is a 70-year-old multi-millionaire.
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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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