(Des Moines, IA) — A non-partisan organization is at the Iowa State Fair asking Iowans how they’re feeling about politics. Better Ballot Iowa’s booth at the Varied Industries Building asks visitors to place stickers on three scales to rate their feelings about politics: frustrated to encouraged, exhausted to energized and ignored to valued on a scale of one to 10.
David Gion with Better Ballot Iowa says the results so far this year mirror the results of last year’s unscientific poll at the end of the 2025 Iowa State Fair. Better Ballot Iowa advocates for single open primaries and ranked choice voting as ways to alleviate ongoing frustration is politics.
