Home to Grinnell College in a county that swings harder than its campus suggests
Poweshiek County anchors a liberal-arts institution with a national reputation inside a rural Iowa landscape that voted Republican by nearly 17 points in 2024, a gap that illustrates how college towns no longer reliably offset surrounding agricultural precincts.
Contextual statewide polling for Iowa. County pages stay rooted in county returns, but live statewide polling helps frame the current cycle.