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Has Iowa Gone Purple ?

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix

Published November 30, 2018 at 8:00 AM CST

On Midwest Week, why Iowa voters this year seem to be happy with Des Moines but unhappy with Washington.

Herb Trix's guest this week is Erin Murphy - Lee Enterprises bureau chief in Des Moines, and his work appears hear in the Quad City Times and Muscatine Journal.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

Herb Trix

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.

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