To the editor:

With just days until the election, we as Iowans are coming to the end of a spectacular journey. The ads are about to end, the mailings will cease and our land-line phone calls will revert back to relatives, neighbors and wrong numbers. 

As a lifelong Republican, it would take one very exceptional Democrat to get my vote for president and while I didn’t vote for the current president, I embraced him as the leader of my country. Unfortunately, the optimism of that incredible ascent to power has been marked with more disappointments than achievements.