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Republican incumbent Senator Charles Grassley won in an easy race. In a much tighter contest for governor, incumbent Terry Branstad edged Democrat Lovell Junkins...
What to do? Iowa has written off Ronald Reagan, turned away from almost everybody else in Washington. "We're doing it ourselves," insists Governor Terry Branstad. "We've gone beyond grieving," says Richard Krumme, editor of Des Moines's Successful Farming magazine. "There's not one solution, there are 100,000 solutions." Iowa farmers are thinking about raising flowers, birdseed, llamas, snails and a few other items they never saw or tasted before. They pledge to work in factories, should anybody send one their way, better than the people in New Jersey and California. Adversity has fired them up again...
...Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing a bill that makes it a crime to purchase child porn. The trickle-down theory of antiporn was in evidence when a planned fund-raising softball game south of Des Moines, featuring a group of Playboy Bunnies and Rabbits, was canceled after phone calls to the local athletic booster club protested...
...private reception, her appearances raised more than $100,000. Her speech sounded like a campaign rouser; Democrats, she said, "can't get elected unless things get worse -- and things won't get worse unless they get elected." She drew a standing ovation, and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad opined, "I think she would be a very attractive national candidate...
Perhaps his toughest task is to back off when being pressured. The stall is sometimes good in basketball and the presidency. When the heat was on the White House to placate farmers and Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad was pleading in the Oval Office for a 30-day extension for farm credit sign-ups, the President, Secretary of Agriculture John Block and Regan all melted. Branstad announced the decision on the White House steps to huzzahs from the farmers. A couple of hours later the beleaguered Senate Majority Leader, Robert Dole, rose in fury on the Hill and rocketed...