How Are Iowa Democrats? ‘I Can’t Even Describe to You How Bad It Is.’ As Republican presidential candidates flock to the state, Democrats there are despondent, exhausted by repeated defeats and the loss of their first-in-the-nation nominating contest. http://web.archive.org/web/20230812193441/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/democrats-iowa-state-fair.html