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

[ideologue08]

Add that to the long list of things you do not understand.

Well, you are much much older than me, so yes you will obviously understand a lot of things I don't. With age comes wisdom, well, at least most of the time.

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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.

Those are good reasons, it will affect the turnout I agree if governor elections are not held same year as presidential elections. But people should surely care about who their governor is, I mean a solid blue state like Wisconsin had two elections, a normal one and a re-call, and both were won by Scott Brown! How that can happen is totally beyond me, either the electorate just didn't care or they genuinely thought that a republican governor was the preferred choice despite voting overwhelmingly for Obama. Both options are confusing.

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It doesn't work like that in the UK, everything is pretty much consistent here. The areas that vote Conservative in the general election all have Conservative held councils etc.