It’s no surprise that Iowa has experienced a significant political shift in the last 12 years.

Since 2012, Iowa has seen a nearly 19-percentage-point swing toward Republicans, according to voting data from the last four presidential elections.

In 2012, former President Barack Obama won the state by nearly 6 points. Half of Iowa’s Congressional delegation was made up of Democrats and control of the Iowa Legislature was split between the two parties. Iowa went to Democrats in four out of the five presidential elections before 2008.

In November, now-President Donald Trump won Iowa by over 13 percentage points, Republicans won supermajorities of both legislative chambers and Iowa’s all-GOP congressional delegation won reelection.

“Iowa has shifted pretty dramatically since about 2008, 2010

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