New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children

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I thought Obama won the state of Iowa? I never understood how a state can have a republican governor, and yet vote for a democratic president, it doesn't make any sense. I think it was the same with Wisconsin as well.

There's a few reasons that I can think of off the top of my head.

Presidential and gubernatorial election cycles aren't in sync (i.e. there can be a multi-year gap between when the president and a state's governor is elected). In areas where elections are decided by a few percentage points, the ramifications should be obvious. Iowa elected it's governor in 2010, a non-presidential election year.

Over a third of voters nationwide identify as independent (Gallup, 2012). Not everyone votes along party lines.