Here are just a few recent examples of how Dubuque shows up in news editorials and blogs.
November 12, 2008. Carl Leubsdorf of The Dallas Morning News argued that Sarah Palin’s November 3rd campaign appearance in Dubuque, “a conservative stronghold in a solidly Democratic state,” signaled the start the 2012 race.
November 30, 2008. Carl Leubsdorf “probably should check the facts before making political pronouncements” about “good old ultra conservative Dubuque,” scoffed Mary Rae Bragg of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald.
January 6, 2009. Joseph Palermo of The Huffington Post said Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Miri Eisen “looks like a soccer mom from Dubuque.” Actually, Colonel Eisen was born in northern California.
January 20, 2009. John Nichols of The Nation attempted to justify his opinions on foreign policy by claiming that Barack Obama’s presidency began at Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque.
February 5, 2009. Jessica Gelt of the Los Angeles Times reported that “a spunky phenom from the Jazz Age,” 91-year-old drummer Jerri Thill, “is still rocking.” Ms. Thill was born in Dubuque in 1917.
July 10, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Dubuque being a “conservative stronghold”? Well, possibly if that word wasn’t being used as a interchangable term for Republican. But it is, and it’s incorrect. Dubuque has been been a Democrat city for quite a while. It has to do with it formerly being a strong union town. When was the last time the city or county went Republican? The second Reagan term? Bush I?