Iowa's 3rd congressional district race shows a tight battle between incumbent Republican David Young and his Democratic challenger Cindy Axne. "The third district exhibits a lot of contradictions, and a lot of divesity of thought and opinion. So you look at the character of the Des Moines area and its immediate western and southern suburbs," says Caufield, "and as you head south and west, you get more and more rural." "There are extreme rural portions of the 3rd district that are entirely