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North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling actually polled the Iowa Republican gubernatorial primary. Yeah, the one next week. Branstad is up by 15 points, 46-31, over Vander Plaats, with Rod Roberts at 13 percent. The poll was of 474 likely GOP primary voters with a 4.5 percent margin of error. From PPP press release: ""In the Iowa Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Roxanne Conlin appears headed for a romp, while Terry Branstad is surprisingly under 50% in his bid for the Republican Gubernatorial nomination. Terry Branstad has just 46% to entrepreneur Bob Vander Plaats’ 31% and State Representative Rod Roberts’ 13%....

Republican hopeful brings primary bid for governor's seat to southeast Iowa. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts plans to spend the next couple weeks leading up to the Iowa primary election the same way he has spent the past 10 months — shaking hands, answering questions and convincing his fellow Republicans he is the best choice to unite the party against incumbent Democratic Gov. Chet Culver "We're burning up Iowa," Roberts said. "It's good. Ten months of this and you build to a crescendo. In politics, timing, movement, momentum, all those streams cross at just the right time and you want...

With the Iowa Republican Primary just five weeks away, former GOP Governor Terry Branstad still attracts much more support than either of his party rivals in the race against current Democratic Governor Chet Culver. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Branstad with 53% support from likely Iowa voters to Culver's 38%. That’s a two-point increase in support for Culver since March and his highest level of support against Branstad since Rasmussen Reports began polling voters about the gubernatorial race last September. But only three percent (3%) of voters remain undecided, while six percent (6%) prefer another candidate. The gap...

Another campaign manager for Gov. Chet Culver announced Monday she is quitting, leaving the Democrat's re-election effort to a veteran Iowa Democratic activist. Abby Curran said she would leave at the end of April, only four months after she was hired to manage Culver's campaign for a second term. Her departure continues a tumultuous period for Culver, who has gone through two campaign managers and two interim managers in the past year... She will be replaced by Donn Stanley, who has long worked for Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. The campaign upheaval comes at a time when polls show Culver's...

During the first debate of the primary season, the three Republican candidates for governor offered opposing views of the kind of experience it will take to be the next governor. The three candidates gathered at KTIV studios in Sioux City for the hour-long debate. Former Governor Terry Branstad started by touting his own 16-year record as governor and questioning rival Bob Vander Plaats, who has never held elected office. “Iowans want a leader not only that talks about things, but somebody that gets results,” Branstad said in his opening statement. “Results over rhetoric, that’s what this is all about.” Vander...