Posted on 10/24/2014 2:00:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Early voting is looking good for Iowa Republican Joni Ernst. In fact, it’s looking better than usual.
Kirsten Hunter of the Washington Free Beacon reports that even CNN is acknowledging the trend:
CNN: Iowa Early Vote Data Shows Unprecedented Republican Numbers
Elated Republicans are celebrating the unprecedented success of U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst (R) in Iowa’s early voting.
Iowa Republicans banked a surge of early voters this week, a practice usually dominated by Democrats in the state.
Ernst’s unprecedented success is also the result of her opponent, Rep. Bruce Braley’s, failure to mobilize Iowa Democrats despite receiving support from high-profile figures including the Clintons and the seat’s current holder, Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa).
“Braley hasn’t run a great campaign,” said CNN reporter Peter Hamby. “Look at the early vote numbers in that state. Democrats in the last two or three cycles have really done well by running up the early vote number.”
Hamby elaborated that Republicans are at a “parity” with Democrats after assessing this week’s early Republican votes.
This “has never happened before,” Hamby said. “Braley wants that number to be higher.”
Here’s the video segment:
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This surge may explain why liberal news sites are attacking Joni Ernst for expressing her completely Constitutional views on the Second Amendment.
Sam Levine of the Huffington Post is just horrified by something Ms. Ernst said in 2012:
Joni Ernst: My Gun Will Defend Me If Government Decides ‘My Rights Are No Longer Important’
Joni Ernst, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, said during an NRA event in 2012 that she would use a gun to defend herself from the government.
“I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere,” Ernst said at the NRA and Iowa Firearms Coalition Second Amendment Rally in Searsboro, Iowa. “But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it’s from an intruder, or whether it’s from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.”
And the problem with that comment is… what again?
Vote fraud turnout not determined yet.
So the rats are getting a good idea of how much they’ll have to cheat...
States like Iowa need to go red, given our current national political environment. This isn’t the Democrat party that Iowa used to support. It’s not about agriculture. It’s about radical leftwing activists.
I was surprised to see Iowa stay solidly Red in 2012. Hopefully Ernst and others can start to change past voting patterns there. We need new states to add to our side to be able to win nationally. Relaying on Virginia and Ohio is not in our favor right now.
Won’t they be surprised when they find out they all voted a straight democrat ticket...
Iowa used to be so Republican that the Democrats there were basically orphans, so it won’t be completely unprecedented. The governors have no term limits, so Republicans (two guys) were in office almost the whole time I lived there.
This column is based on county officials actually seeing the ballots, so no, they won’t be voting Democrat.
I like that.
Yet.
What about the second, third and fourth times they “vote”?
I think you have Iowa mixed up with Illinois. Common mistake.
This is what FR has become, a depressing, defeatist website.
I hope you are right.
But I suspect that type of fraud is being perpetrated by democrats in every state in the union.
Hey, now, I resent that remark!
I have been making negative and depressing posts since I first signed up here almost ten years ago.
I will not stand for being labeled a pessimist-come-lately.
will they be counted or stuffed in a trunk?
I agree with what you’re saying and have been noting that FR is killing their own...and the Dems just keep laughing.
Well unless you are smoking dope the reality is that all this happy happy joy joy stuff is usually just a feel good moment before it does a 180 and bites us in the @ss.
Until I see it with my own eyes it will remain doom and gloom.
........I’m going to agree with you that there is “too much” negativeness and that it is seemingly always the first automatic reaction of too many too often. And, I will Agee that “some” are “defeatist”.
I don’t agree on indicting the “whole website” as negative and defeatist though.
I would hope that county officials are not “seeing the ballots.” They are not supposed to open absentee ballot envelopes until Election night. What we do know is the party registration of those who have requested and returned absentee ballots.
Every time a poll shows up with the Democrat ahead-the GOP deserves to lose.
If the GOP is ahead-we can't win due to fraud.
If a poll shows the GOP winning, the comments are-'we thought we were going to win in 2012'
Or, it won't matter, both Parties are the same.
If I see a positive article regarding the GOP takeover of the Senate and click unto it, I know I am going to see the above comments as the dominate comments.
This site needs to redefine itself as the 'loser' and 'whiner' site for Conservatives.
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