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Three polls have pro-life Ernst over pro-abortion Braley in Iowa

Oct 1, 2014

 

By Dave Andrusko

Joni_Ernst_EndorsementLet’s hear it one more time: campaigns are filled with ebbs and flows. But with the mid-term elections just over a month away, the ups and downs you have to take particular cognizance of are taking place right now.

You have to laugh at the headline in The Hill Newspaper: “Rural votes stymie Dem in Iowa race.” No kidding.

The race is the Senate race; the Dem is Rep. Bruce Braley; and the rural votes are all those voters in the agricultural community Braley alienated with various incredibly tone-deaf remarks. The most notorious was calling Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.” (Interestingly, the Hill reporter, Cameron Joseph, chopped off the last six words which had made a dumb remark doubly offensive.)

Braley is running against pro-life, NRLC-endorsed state Sen. Joni Ernst to fill the seat left open with the impending retirement of pro-abortion Senator Tom Harkin (D). Here’s the lead from Joseph’s story:

“The millions Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and his allies have spent to tear apart state Sen. Joni Ernst (R) have yet to push him ahead or repair his image with rural voters.

“Now, with five weeks to go until Election Day, some state Democrats are worried their offensive won’t be enough to save the key Senate battleground after a trio of recent polls found Ernst ahead.”

That trio included a poll conducted for the influential Des Moines Register over the weekend “by highly regarded pollster Ann Selzer [that] found Ernst with a 6-point edge, particularly among rural voters.”

In addition, “A recent Quinnipiac University survey also had Ernst up 6 points,” Joseph reported. “An automated poll from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling coming out Tuesday has Ernst up 44 percent to 42 percent,” he added.

Braley, as a dyed in the wool pro-abortionist, called on Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, the largest abortion “provider” in the United States. In a Monday afternoon conference call for Braley, Richards offered the usual put-down of Ernst as “extreme.”

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