University of Northern Iowa political science professor Christopher Larimer says the 2018 election results show Iowa is still very much a swing state.
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Republican Governor Kim Reynolds will stay in office. Republicans retained firm control of a majority of seats in the Iowa legislature. Democrats, meanwhile, flipped two U.S. House seats in Iowa that had been held by Republicans and came within three points of knocking off long-time Republican Congressman Steve King.
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Kim Reynolds beat Fred Hubbell by about 40-thousand votes. If you add all the votes in Iowa’s four congressional races together for a statewide tally, the Democratic candidates in the four districts got about 50-thousand more votes than the Republican candidates.