The Republican National Committee expects Iowa to again be a “battleground” state in this fall’s presidential election…
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That’s R-N-C chairman Reince Priebus. He plans to position more than 100 paid field staffers in Iowa to turn-out Republican voters…
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Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in Iowa by six points. The Republican National Committee has a six-figure budget for its General Election effort in Iowa — and some of the R-N-C field staff who worked on the Joni Ernst Senate campaign in 2014 are already here, planning for November.
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The Republican National Committee has divided Iowa into 50 different zones or “turfs” and a full-time R-N-C staffer is being assigned to each zone. Party officials say they’ve identified up to 10-thousand voters in each zone. These voters are Republicans who don’t always vote or voters who “swing” between voting for Republicans and Democrats. Republicans admit they studied the “Obama for America” playbook in Iowa and retooled their effort to engage Iowa voters.