Huckabee said candidates can’t win Iowa “unless you go out and talk to farmers and housewives and welders and unemployed truck drivers.” That doesn’t really describe Iowa’s economy these days: “Nearly 40 percent of Iowans now work in finance, in real estate or for companies involved in professional services such as health care, law and accounting,” about 10 times the proportion who work in agriculture, Daniel Lathrop wrote on our website last month.
