[Iowa Granny]

Very slow today. I'm just arriving home,, so nice not to have to sift thru 3 pages of posts to find out what went on while I was gone.

Thank goodness for Friday Nite H.S. football games. I need the rest.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning, The Harkin/Ganske saga continues.

A DM Register poll show Harkin's numbers inching upwards.

Harkin opens up sizable lead over Ganske

By JONATHAN ROOS

Register Staff Writer

09/28/2002

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has widened his lead over Republican opponent Greg Ganske over the past three months, according to a Des Moines Register poll that was taken this week as Iowans were learning details of an unfolding campaign controversy.

The Democratic incumbent has opened a 20-percentage-point lead over Ganske, a congressman from Des Moines, in the latest Iowa Poll of likely voters. His lead in late June was 9 points.

Among adults who say they definitely will vote in the Nov. 5 election, 54 percent say they would support Harkin if the election were held now, and 34 percent would back Ganske. The rest would either prefer another candidate or are undecided. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.