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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I'm an old Millenial who was on the school bus for 90 minutes a day between '92-'95 and we couldn't escape that shit either.
  2. The Gin Blossoms had some excellent Paul Westerberg rip offs.
  3. They sold out to Maverick from Utah. Kum & Go's will be gone soon. Plus, they were fairly inconsistent in their locations and layouts. Tons in central Iowa, but almost none in the far northern part of the state (where I live). It's all Kwik Trip/Star and Casey's, or mom and pop type joints. The occasional Love's at a busy interchange too.
  4. To follow up on this again, I have seen far less Trump shit than the last two cycles. He'll still carry these counties (as well as our neighboring rural MN and WI counties), but enthusiasm and momentum for him seems to be waning. There's even a giant "KAMALA HARRIS" flag right off the main highway through my town, next to the Kwik Star (if you know the Upper Midwest, you know that this is basically the busiest spot in any small town). While it's every bit as cringey as a Trump flag, it feels like a meaningful data point towards a general sense of Trump fatigue.
  5. Intensely emotional songs that resonate specifically with older Gen Z kids. I definitely prefer Sturgill, but I get his popularity.
  6. Hard to tell. People have aggressively avoided talking politics this cycle and there are very few candidate signs up, period. I don’t think he’s peeling any Trumpers, but Walz is exactly the kind of guy that would have swept Iowa 15 years ago.
  7. Fastest Horse In Town fucking rips
  8. Yeah, I think OSU is a good squad, I just think if they and ISU play 10 times, no one is winning more than 6 games. The programs are in very similar places right now.
  9. It doesn't need to. ISU actually beat OSU last year and both squads return basically everyone. It was just another data point, as OSU had a (by one game) better conference record than ISU (OSU played a weaker conference slate, dodging UT in the regular season). If you look at their results against common opponents, it's all over the place. OSU beat OU and KU, ISU lost to them. Both beat KSU (ISU did it on the road, OSU did it at home). Both beat the shit out of Cincy. ISU demolished BYU on the road, OSU should have lost to them at home. My point is that OSU is not in any way, shape, or form obviously on a different tier than ISU.
  10. Nah. The lucrative nature of pandering to the right got him off team blue. If he was ever on it to begin with.
  11. ISU beat OSU last year and both squads return everyone. I think Utah is better (and we play them in Salt Lake) but a whole lot of people have just slotted 2 teams we beat last year ahead of us in OK State and KSU. And it wasn't like we beat OSU when they were doing their stupid 3 man QB rotation. We beat them with Bowman going the whole way. ISU also played UT much closer than OK State did. I'd take that bet on the ISU/Iowa game too. Iowa will win, but it will be by less than a score. 13-10. 9-6. Far from anything resembling an ass kicking. Other than Campbell's first season, and the 2021 debacle, that game has been stupid close. Iowa is an above average squad that has benefitted from an extremely weak conference schedule, and utter incompetence from their premiere non-con opponent. Look at how they fare against anyone that's willing to put the ball in the air against them. It's not pretty. Campbell's a fucking idiot when it comes to that game and routinely tries to beat Ferentz at Ferentzball, and the only time it ever worked was with the shittiest team that he had assembled in Ames and Spencer Petras at QB for Iowa. Iowa has been blessed with shitty opponents that literally hand them the game, unforced (watch the end of last year's Iowa/Nebraska game if you don't believe me), on a regular basis for year after year and it's continuing again this year. They have a lower SOS than much of the Big 12 despite playing in the vaunted Big 10. Iowa's going to win 10 games again this year, but if they get into the playoffs, they will once again be exposed as existing on the spoils of a conference that's really mostly mediocre but just has a lot of eyeballs. I've had to wait to use a portajohn at an ISU tailgate for this exact reason.
  12. Maybe RFK is making a savvy long play to cement his legacy. By going full nut job, he sucks votes away from Trump, gives Harris the W, and meaningfully helps the Democrats win an election. He was never going to be President on his own, but he has a very real opportunity effect the outcome.
  13. It's bad for Trump if Kennedy stays in until the end. Kennedy isn't taking a single Harris vote.
  14. Pryes makes better beer than Surly anyhow.
  15. It's not at all my kind of music, but my wife is really into her and it seems like pretty much every woman under the age of 40 in the Midwest has become mildly obsessed with her, so it's sort of inescapable in my life. It's definitely thoughtful, well done pop music. I just don't really like pop music.
  16. It's unseasonably cool right now, in the best possible way. Weather doesn't really get better than what we've got in the Upper Midwest the next 5-6 days.
  17. WVU tailgate destroys CU. I’m obviously biased, but you can find lots of posts from UT fans who went to games in Ames praise ISU’s as well. OK State is awesome, and KSU is fairly similar to the Pokes and Clones but smaller.
  18. There's a guy in my town who has an RFK yard sign. He also has gargoyle statues on his porch.
  19. Iowa State behind Cincy, ASU, UCF, CU for tailgating is nuts and clearly not arrived at by anyone who's gone to these games. KSU, WVU, and OK State are very similar.
  20. I would literally nut. We'd probably do better against the 5 seed than they would anyhow. They got outscored 96-0 by ranked teams last year. We at least kept it interesting with you guys.
  21. Part of that was the mood of the time. As late as 2018 the Democrats (when Walz was first elected) were still getting a lot of votes in southern Minnesota (and northern Iowa as well). I live right next door and I've seen a larger number (and just generally higher intensity) of Trump displays in Minnesota (a state that Harris will win fairly comfortably) than I do in Iowa (a state that Trump will win fairly comfortably) and it has a lot to do with the persecution complex that's just rampant in any rural area that shares a state with a major city. Following the 2018 election, even Iowa had 3/4 US House districts represented by a Democrat, which seems unfathomable two election cycles later. Social media broke the brains of a large portion of rural Americans who were actual swing voters as recent as a 6 years ago. I don't know if there's a way to get them back.
  22. Gotcha. I think he could do that. I'm probably still team Kelly, but love a lot about Walz. I think the most effective attack against him will come in the form of the Minneapolis riots, but that falls far more on the mayor than it does Walz, who actually called in the National Guard to get shit under control.
  23. He hasn't reached his own rural white constituents. They hate his guts. I like Walz a lot. Would love to have him as a governor. But I don't think he's really reaching rural whites based on the Minnesota voting map.
  24. I was a huge Burr fan prior to that and still am. He laid Rogan’s bullshit bare here
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