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Does this work on Iowans?

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I’ve always thought this type of pandering is so glaringly obvious it would be a huge turn off for a lot of voters. Yet both parties’ politicians seem to do stuff like this.

How often do you think Nikki Haley wears cowboy boots?




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I’ve always thought this type of pandering is so glaringly obvious it would be a huge turn off for a lot of voters. Yet both parties’ politicians seem to do stuff like this.

How often do you think Nikki Haley wears cowboy boots?




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I already posted on another thread that I get shrinkage when I see Kimmie doing the same. I'd bet at most 15% of Iowans wear that gear. Either way, Nicki can go to hell. Her commercials here are over the top about China.
 
I’ve always thought this type of pandering is so glaringly obvious it would be a huge turn off for a lot of voters. Yet both parties’ politicians seem to do stuff like this.

How often do you think Nikki Haley wears cowboy boots?




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That type of pandering works extremely well on the right wing.

I mean Donald Trump was a New York Billionaire who banged porn stars, divorced serially, cheated on all 3 of his wives, was proud of being on the cover playboy once, and was friends with the Clintons. Yet he convinced a lot of right wing evangelicals to throw Jesus out and make him their Lord and savior. How did he do that?? Lots and lots of pandering with a heavy dose of racist dog whistles.
 
She’s polling at about 4% last time I checked, so it doesn’t seem to be working for her.
But she's tough as nails, smart as a whip. Who are they targeting with this verbiage? Even in the Iowa GOP, the 80+ Matlock-watching crowd can't be your key demographic.
 
Plenty of people wear boots in small towns.
I grew up in an Iowa town of about 2000 people an hours drive from the nearest shopping mall. In my experience with quite a few small towns in Central Iowa, only a handful of people wore cowboy boots. And if they did, they were more work boots than the fancy dress ones. Anecdotal, I know.
 
Man, I grew up in small ass farm town Iowa and i saw a lot of cowboy boots.
Like wearing them to work or around the farm? I've rarely seen that - and I spent my first 1.5 years out of college working at a weekly newspaper that covered about a dozen towns of under 1,500.

Maybe it's just not a thing in eastern Iowa.
 
The only Iowans I've seen wear cowboy boots beyond the goofball or two was the Mount Ayr football team who, along with us, watched the 1A state football championships from the bleachers in the Dome. I think that was like their playoff beards.
 
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Man, I grew up in small ass farm town Iowa and i saw a lot of cowboy boots.

I just texted my 23 year old son and asked him "How many of your HS classmates wore cowboy boots to school?" He replied "Probably half, but that was just the ones who wore them every day"

He had 31 kids in his class...one of them was his sister. Neither of them have ever worn a pair of cowboy boots.
 
Early/mid 90s in my NE IA HS you saw about as many goth kids as you did kids with cowboy boots, which is to say about 4-6 kids. I think that has changed though.
 
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I laugh when I see the bales of hay … or the standard plaid shirt … or cowboy boots. Yes, Iowa has farms… But the majority of Iowans don’t live on farms or drive tractors. I get it is part of our identity … but many many Iowans have no clue about farming, etc.
 
I’m in DSM and have never had any connection to farming. You’re not going to see a lot of cowboy boots here for sure. I’m not certain about small towns but I really don’t think it’s an everyday thing.

So, yes, OP, it’s pandering.
 
I laugh when I see the bales of hay … or the standard plaid shirt … or cowboy boots. Yes, Iowa has farms… But the majority of Iowans don’t live on farms or drive tractors. I get it is part of our identity … but many many Iowans have no clue about farming, etc.

I detasseled in high tops, t-shirt, and blue jeans, same with throwing hay. If you didn't detassle, are your really from southern Iowa?
 
I detasseled in high tops, t-shirt, and blue jeans, same with throwing hay. If you didn't detassle, are your really from southern Iowa?
I grew up in NW Iowa and spent plenty of summers detassling … That’s sums up my entire farm experience … beyond that - zilch… I don’t mean to come across like knocking farmers as my dad grew up on a farm in Swea City Iowa…. my point is the national tendency to assume every Iowan is a farmer and we all drive tractors …
 
I grew up in NW Iowa and spent plenty of summers detassling … That’s sums up my entire farm experience … beyond that - zilch… I don’t mean to come across like knocking farmers as my dad grew up on a farm in Swea City Iowa…. my point is the national tendency to assume every Iowan is a farmer and we all drive tractors …
Some slop hogs though?
 
Pandering.

And no...Haley isn't doing well in Iowa.

I sense she's gone after New Hampshire.

Her calling is being a ventriloquist. Watch her mouth when she speaks.
 
Yeah, nobody wore cowboy boots except for the Willie/George Straight/Dwight Yoakam fans. Even if they did farm, they were just playing a part. Same with the cowboy hats.

Work boots, or old hiking boots you wore to school. Old tennis shoes for the light work.

A full brim hat, with the brim angled downward (like a fishing hat) was the standard since my great-grandfather’s farming days. Yeah, baseball hats were cool, but your ears and back of your neck got scorched.
 
Yeah, nobody wore cowboy boots except for the Willie/George Straight/Dwight Yoakam fans. Even if they did farm, they were just playing a part. Same with the cowboy hats.

Work boots, or old hiking boots you wore to school. Old tennis shoes for the light work.

A full brim hat, with the brim angled downward (like a fishing hat) was the standard since my great-grandfather’s farming days. Yeah, baseball hats were cool, but your ears and back of your neck got scorched.
The cowboy thing is plaguing the suburbs. People whose grandparents were born on farms and whose parents imitated the speaking style of Dwight Eisenhower now wearing boots and employing a casual drawl. It must end.
 
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