Released on: January 1, 2008, 1:06 pm

Press Release Author: Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Industry: Government

Press Release Summary: Iowa Won't Boost Obama with Mid-America Voters
Says Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson



Press Release Body: The Hutchinson Political Report
Media Release

January 2, 2008
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-296-6331

Iowa Won't Boost Obama with Mid-America Voters
Says Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson


While an Iowa primary win or big showing is important for Democratic presidential
contender Barack Obama, Iowa is still an aberration among the heartland states, says
political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of the forthcoming book, The Ethnic
Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House. Iowa is moderately
Democratic leaning, has a mild populist tradition, and voters are known to be
independent on candidates and issues. These are the exact opposite traits of the
other heartland states which are traditionalist, deeply conservative, and rock solid
Republican. No white Democratic presidential candidate has managed to crack them in
recent elections, and that includes Bill Clinton. He won not one heartland state in
1996.
Obama, contends Hutchinson, will do even worse than any Democrat in those states.
Even if Obama is able to speak the language of white voters in Iowa, and convince
them that he\'s a color neutral presidential candidate, that won't lift the clouds of
suspicion about him in the other heartland states. A win or a big showing in Iowa
will give Obama's dream campaign an adrenalin shot. But that won't dispel the
doubts, says Hutchinson, of the mass of heartland voters that he\'s still a political
question mark, or the deeper fear that he's too liberal, inexperienced, and an
African-American. Iowa is a test for Obama. It's by no means the final one.


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