Poll conducted before Braley's recent remarks attacking Chuck Grassley as a farmer who didn't go to law school.
Is this one we were already counting as a pickup toward taking the Senate? or is this an extra?
Braley’s ‘farmer from Iowa’ remarks could spell election trouble for party
I think Braleys poll numbers are weak considering that he already represents 1/4 of the state. The others are not very well known. Joni ernst would be our strongest candidate.
The Dem is just barely beating any of several Republicans? That means once there’s a single nominee, the Dem is likely to get thumped.
Also, Ernst has released a commercial that is getting national (free) air play, which can only help her cause.
This is one the dems need in order to hold the senate and it's not looking very good for them at the moment.
So within the margin of error on all of them except the talk show guy.
Very good news.
Once the “farmer” comment gets out, it will kill him.
Before? Interesting, very interesting Marco. These are some good numbers.
Ms. Ernst is the clever lady looking to go to Washington, DC to try out her hog-castrating skills on the federal government. I don’t know much about the lady, but I love the ad.
While really too small a difference to count, that 3-point spread for Ernst is actually better than is Braley’s, because the percent backing the incumbent party is lower.
And of course she just got Palin’s support yesterday.
Will be kinda close but the Dim will take this one as expected.
A couple months ago when Jacobs was interviewed by Simon Conway, he DANCED all over the place when posed a simple question: When (not if) a “clean” bill to raise the debt ceiling comes to the floor of the Senate, how would a Senator Mark Jacobs vote? Would you vote YES or NO to raise the debt ceiling with NO accompanying spending cuts and NO other concessions from Democrats?
When Jacobs kept dancing around the question by reading from his talking points, Conway stated the question no less than three times. Jacobs refused to answer.
Mark Jacobs is a spineless politician.
Conventional campaign wisdom is that an incumbent (and given this is Harken’s seat the Dem is considered the incumbent) is in trouble if he’s pulling less than 50%.
Months still to go in the campaign season, but reasonable predictions would say that there are a LOT of environmental factors (like the continuing problems with Obamacare, more of which will rise to prominence between now and the election) that will work for the GOP and against the Dems ...
This idiot just touted his endorsement from Liz Warren to change the subject.
It will probably hurt them with higher GOP turnout in the House races. They will have less chance of competing for Latham’s seat.