Marking this episode of Iowa Press “safe to watch.”

This week the program focused more on national politics than state politics.  The conversation covered Iowa congressional races, the party’s conventions and briefly, statehouse races.

We are in that pleasant window of time before Republicans come up with terrible things to say about the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that Iowa Press will repeat every week on the show.  With President Biden out of the race, the panel of reporters seemed a bit lost without their handy “Won’t-Biden-on-the-ticket-hurt-Iowa-democrats?” media narrative.  Erin Murphy could not bring himself to sign off without  establishing doom and gloom for Iowa Democrats anyway, turning to a question about Democrats losing our Iowa-first-in-the-nation caucuses to fill the negativity gap.

Other than that, this wasn’t a terrible episode. One question I have is, will political science professor Donna Hoffman ever be invited back to the program after she said positive things about the Democratic National Convention?

At least for this episode, feel free to watch without fear of wanting to throw something at the TV.

Happy Tuesday!