IOWA: HOME OF THE MAYTAG REPAIRMAN [Brian Kennedy 10/25 09:32 AM]
President Bush returns to Iowa today with stops planned in Council Bluffs, Davenport, and Dubuque. In one sense, the President arrives with less at stake than ever. Some estimate that over a third of the electorate has already cast their ballots through absentee voting or early voting. So each time the candidates return to Iowa it’s to woo a rapidly declining pool of remaining voters. At this rate of early voting, poll watchers on Election Day are going to feel like the spokesman for a fine Iowa product, the Maytag repairman.
