Iowa Political Alert: Breaking Down The Rural-Urban Results In Iowa Caucuses

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Breaking Down The Rural-Urban Results In Iowa Caucuses

Bill Bishop of the Center for Rural Strategies has crunched the county numbers for the Iowa Caucuses to give us a picture of rural and urban trends Thursday, useful information for campaigns as they move on to future battegrounds.

Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses last night. That's what they have in common. They differed in the support they found in rural Iowa. Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher and governor of Arkansas, did considerably better in rural Iowa than in urban parts of the state. Obama, the young Illinois senator from Chicago, won rural Iowa, but he did considerably better in the cities.

You can read the full report at the Center for Rural Strategies Website.

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Douglas Burns is a writer and columnist for the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa. Burns is also a co-owner of the newspaper which has been in his family for three generations.

Additionally, Burns is a contributor to The Center for Rural Strategies' Daily Yonder, a national online rural newspaper. He also writes a regular column, Political Mercury, for Cityview, a Des Moines weekly newspaper.

Burns is a Cedar Rapids native who grew up in Carroll and graduated from Carroll High School in 1987 before moving on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he majored in journalism and graduated in 1991.