Of the dozens of state fairgoers we spoke to in a radically unscientific survey, all recognized former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.). There were a handful of candidates that almost everyone could identify, but fairgoers struggled to name others, especially those who haven’t participated in debates.

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The Post asked Iowans gathered near two political mainstays at the fair to circle any of the 24 presidential hopefuls they could name. Those locations — the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox, where the fair’s version of candidate speed dating takes place, and the WHO-TV booth, where voters placed corn kernels in jars marked with their preferred candidate — were a magnet for political activists and casual observers alike.