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Poll: Joni Ernst Opens Up 18-Pt Lead in Iowa
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | June 1, 2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 06/01/2014 3:56:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst has opened up an 18-point lead and is on pace to win the nomination on Tuesday, according to the results of a Des Moines Register poll three days before the primary.

Ernst, who has been endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and became a household name with her hog castration ad, has 36% in the poll, which was released on Saturday evening. Mark Jacobs, the more liberal businessman who has poured millions of his own money into the race, has 18%. A candidate needs to receive more than 35% of the vote to avoid a nominating convention, which would favor Sam Clovis and Ernst.

Former U.S. Attorney and Iowa football player Matt Whitaker, whom Texas Governor Rick Perry endorsed, has 13% while Clovis, the former talk radio host who has been endorsed by social conservatives like the Family Leader's Bob Vander Platts, has 11%. Scott Schaben, who has failed to gain much traction, has 2%.

J. Ann Selzer of Selzer & Co., which conducts the Iowa Poll, said there may still be some fluidity in the race because 16% of likely GOP primary voters remain undecided and nearly 75% of voters "could be persuaded to vote for someone else."

According to the Register, "a bad sign for Jacobs" is that "his numbers dropped through four days of polling."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Iowa; Campaign News; Polls; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; ia2014; iowa; joniernst; palin; polls
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To: Din Maker

From the article:

The Republican nominee will face Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) in the fall to replace retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) in a state in which 53% of voters disapprove of President Barack Obama. Braley may have instantly made the race competitive when he denigrated Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as just “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” at a fundraiser with wealthy Texas trial lawyers.

After video of Braley’s remarks surfaced, David Yepsin, the longtime authority on Iowa politics, told the Register that Braley’s remarks “will hurt him,” especially because Grassley is a “political icon.”


21 posted on 06/01/2014 5:58:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Din Maker

This ad could even be better than the hog castration one, and that one was marvelous. Beautifully filmed, great script read by a great narrator, even shows her wedding ring.


22 posted on 06/01/2014 9:23:47 PM PDT by nd76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Add Nixon to that list. He spent his “wilderness years” building a massive ground game that got him the Presidency.


23 posted on 06/02/2014 6:11:44 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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