What is the most centrist state?

[ButterflyBlood]

picking the most liberal and most conservative are fairly easy. But what is the closest to the center of all states?

I'll have to say Iowa.

[blackcat77]

1. Indiana

You literally cannot tell the Pubs from the Dems without a program.

[ButterflyBlood]

2. wouldn't that just mean it's a far right state?

or far left I suppose, but it obviously isn't there.

Iowa can elect a senator as liberal as Harkin and conservative as Grassely, but Indiana can't elect anyone to the left of Bayh, yet it has no problems with Dan Quayle.

[demodewd]

3. Ohio

Ohio

[Wapsie B]

4. I'd agree

with Iowa being a centrist state for the most part. We seem to have no problem electing a konservative repug like Terry Braindead for governor. But it'll be a cold day in hades if we'd get a Liberal in the governor's mansion.

Come to think of it, it may be the one argument I can think of for having the Iowa Caucases first in the nation.

[ButterflyBlood]

5. What about Harkin?

if you can elect someone as liberal as him to the Senate you could probably elect a liberal governor.

[Wapsie B]

7. I don't think

the Farm Bureau would let a liberal in that office for one thing. That's a very powerful lobby around here.

[BillZBubb]

6. Iowa is a good choice

Ohio is slightly Repug. Indiana is the same.

Minnesota, unfortunately, is slipping into the centrist camp. Michigan and Pennsylvannia are also centrist.

[Syrinx]

8. either Ohio or Missouri