Geography lesson about Pocatello Idaho
Pocatello Idaho is over 500 miles away from Hayden Lake (Nearly as far as San Francisco to Portland), ~7 and a half hour drive and therefore a multiple day trip if you wanted to go and not just immediately turn around and come back. I wouldn't call it close, literally opposite sides of the state.
Pocatello is a weird city, with weird people, and racist in its own weird Mormon way (Anti- Native American and Islamaphobic when I lived there). However, it is one of the few little blue islands in a sea of red, and OVERWHELMINGLY caucused for Bernie (I want to say like 80%, but Idaho was very pro Bernie).
None of this is to say anything in the episode is wrong, aside from calling Pocatello nearby to anything in northern Idaho, and I know 99% of you can't point to Idaho on a map and I'm feeling pedantic.
Source: I (grew up? went to University) in Pocatello and had to drive to Coeur d'Alene to visit my wife's family for the holidays when I lived there.