Voters in Iowa have already begun filling out their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. One of the choices they will make this year is whether to send Republican Chuck Grassley back for an eighth term in the U.S. Senate. National Democrats have mostly given up on Iowa, which was long seen as a competitive between the two major political parties. Grassley, though, is running in the closest race he has had since his first election to the Senate in 1980.
"This is my 99th county meeting I've had for the 42 year in a row," Grassley said to a round of applause from a friendly midday crowd in the rural southwest Iowa town of Bedford in late August.
