Iowa has been a bellwether state in recent presidential elections.
Joni Ernst didn’t know the price of soybeans. Here’s why that could cost her.|Benjamin Rosenberg|October 16, 2020|Vox
Historically, jobs reports released shortly before the election have been reasonable bellwethers for how the incumbent party will do, although the last jobs report of the cycle isn’t necessarily the most reliable.
September’s Jobs Report Is A Political Rorschach Test|Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (Amelia.Thomson-DeVeaux@abc.com)|October 2, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Nike is a bellwether for a sector that’s been outperforming during the pandemic.
Gold bugs are on the back foot as COVID concerns climb and stimulus-check hopes fade|Bernhard Warner|September 25, 2020|Fortune
Brad Plumer notes that Walmart sales are often a bellwether for the rest of the economy.
Walmart Customers Have Disappeared. Will They Take the Economy With Them?|Megan McArdle|February 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
So Ohio is more than just a bellwether; it could decide the election.
Virginia, Ohio, Florida: What to Watch For on Election Night 2012|Howard Kurtz|November 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
One state both candidates are sure to spend time in is Ohio, which has already emerged once again as a bellwether in the race.
Despite Obama’s Policies, The Rust Belt’s Revival Could Save His Campaign|Joel Kotkin|June 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
One safe prediction, though: whichever side wins will waste no time assuring the nation that their victory is a bellwether.
The Race to Replace Weiner|David A. Graham|September 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Of the Bellwether Prize, Durrow says simply: “It changed my whole life.”
A Novelist's Biracial Struggle|John Douglas Marshall|March 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST
One bellwether will carry a whole flock after it, but I fear not that any will want to hold back.
By Right of Conquest|G. A. Henty
And the whole nine of us obligingly trudged after him like sheep after the bellwether, and reëntered the castle.
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons|James Francis Thierry
Without some governing body to direct the affairs of the country they would have been like a flock without its bellwether.
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day|Haji A. Browne
But take a sheep flock now—the bellwether is jest a nice gentle old castrate thet'll do jest whut the sheepherder wants.
Assassin|Jesse Franklin Bone
And what is the use of arguing with sheep who are leaping after the bellwether?