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[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

2024 Presidential Results by Television Media Markets

Trump's best % areas were again in W Texas & Appalachia. But this time his largest raw vote margins were Tampa & DFW

Like Biden, Harris' highest %s were in the Bay Area & DC. By raw vote, LA & NYC join SF as her top markets

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Presidential Election Results by Television Media Markets

The Bay Area and DC had the highest Biden % margins

Trump's best areas were in TV markets across W. Texas, Appalachia, and some miniscule Plains markets (#Glendive)

By raw votes, SLC and TN were Trump's best markets

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Guess which precinct the Muhlbauer family is from

[Matthew Klein @MattKleinOnline]

Rob Sand selects Dave Muhlbauer, a cattleman and the lone Democrat on the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, as his running mate in the Iowa gubernatorial race.

Crawford County voted for Donald Trump 71%-28% in 2024.

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

From Manilla to Decorah and every small town in between, Iowans are ready for a new direction and leadership focused on bringing common sense back to state government. That’s why I’m proud to announce I’ve chosen @DaveMuhlbauerIA as my running mate.

Dave & I are focused on getting to work to solve some of our state’s toughest challenges. Like me, Dave knows this isn’t about being a Democrat or a Republican. It’s about being Iowans. #SandMuhlbauer

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

A few fun tidbits
Wahls' family is from Clayton County in NE Iowa, and you can see some that residual connection
The dark brown dots in Cedar Falls & Ames are campus precincts, but with school out they had <10 votes. OTOH, U of I precincts were actually Turek's best in IC

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Iowa Democrats nominated Josh Turek for US Senate by a 25 points margin over Zach Wahls

Turek won with a broad base of support spanning rural, suburban, & urban areas - sweeping every precinct in 77 of 99 counties. Wahls only won in a handful of locales beyond the Iowa City area

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

You can see both candidates' regional support base - Turek in Western Iowa & Wahls in parts of East Central Iowa

Beyond regionalism, Turek was very strong in both wealthy and Hispanic areas. Wahls limited losses in younger areas, new growth suburbs, and heavily Black precincts

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@LauraRBelin So there might be some Lahn-Laehn voters?

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

3 of the 4 are running unopposed this cycle. The Chickasaw County Recorder will face a Republican again this year.

The Clay County Attorney result is one of the most impressive overperformances I've seen. He was a first time candidate in a county Obama never won

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Here are some Iowa maps of county level Democrats winning their 2022 elections against Republican opponents in super red areas

Who needs national partisanship when you've got random small town personal dynamics determining electoral outcomes? So much more fun

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

This morning: Poll found Rep. Randy Feenstra trailing businessman Zach Lahn 27%-24% in #IAGov GOP primary. Raises possibility that no one wins 35%, which would force convention to pick nominee.

This afternoon: President Trump endorses Feenstra to shore up congressman's chances.

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Updated Iowa Governor fundraising (Jan 1 - May 14)

🟦 Rob Sand - $9.67m ($18.3m CoH)
🟥 Zach Lahn - $980k ($707k)
🟥 Randy Feenstra - $739k ($586k)
🟥 Adam Steen - $497k ($158k)
🟥 Brad Sherman - $154k ($128k)
🟥 Eddie Andrews - $16k ($6k)

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Iowa Governor 2025 fundraising

🟦 Rob Sand - $9.55m (13.2m CoH)
🟥 Randy Feenstra - $4.3m (3.2m, 1.4m from Cong campaign)
🟥 Adam Steen - $500k (336k)
🟥 Brad Sherman - $200k (85k)
🟥 Zach Lahn - $157k (2.1m, 2m self loan)
🟥 Eddie Andrews - $40k (5k)

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@electionsjoe There were non-contiguous districts in the 90s
https://t.co/oVtkjLsROE

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

It looks like the Navajo and Hopi tribes wanted to be in different CDs so badly that Arizona actually had a non-contiguous district in the 1990s

That little circle south of Tuba City in CD3 is a Hopi Reservation exclave surrounded by Navajo Nation and CD6

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@SidKhurana3607 What's the smallest with at least 2 teams? Cincinnati?

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

We have a proud tradition of telling politicians we may vote for you, but we don’t worship you. We put guard rails up around their power to aim it at serving us, not themselves.

Time to renew that tradition by ending the special legal privileges of the Democratic and Republican parties and ending the two-choice system.

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

It doesn't always end up proportional, but you get plenty of competitive seats and incumbent on incumbent primaries right after

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

Iowa System for Everyone!!!

You'll love it

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Anyway since the Virginia-resident class of conservative journalists and operatives have personally come out on the short end of the stick on this redistricting fight, perhaps they can push their party to negotiate a national gerrymandering ban. Dems are ready to take the call.

[Domestique @Domestique___]

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RACE REPORT 📰 https://t.co/e6hENRR1lW

📸 Cor Vos

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@AtifRMian Don't know what you mean, Lahore has nothing as historic and culturally important as the F-7 Markaz. It has a Subway!

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@shazzity Forest

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

In the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the largest 2015-26 shifts to Dems were in peripheral media markets

Of the 8 markets in WI, the largest swings were in the 3 with a majority out-of-state audience. The smallest shifts were in the 2 biggest markets - Milwaukee & Madison

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@DrewSav *2025-26

[Mac Linn @mac_unmapped]

@treveghan @ChazNuttycombe Not all of the counties in those markets are blue

Look at Milwaukee market, went from 2nd bluest in 2025 to 4th in 2026