Abstract

How Safe Is Iowa?

There are a good many Republican mathematicians who laugh--or go through the motions of laughing-- when asked about Republican chances in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Democrats are officially claiming Nebraska and Kansas and admitting that Iowa is doubtful. The truth is, of course, that neither crowd knows much about it. Neither does anybody else. If there is a landslide for anybody, it will be for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but lines are so torn up that it is hard for anybody to do any guessing that means much. In all three States the farmers, badly hurt in the deflation of 1920, had struggled back until, in 1928, they had their fingers gripping the edge of the precipice. They were still having a hard time but they were hopeful. The economic change is one difference between 1928 and 1932.