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.”
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How is this possible?
Don’t Republicans hate women?
Don’t they think they should be in the kitchen and not in Washington?
Liberals must be silently howling at this gem of an article.
This is usually where the liberals chime in with, “HE’S TRYING TO BUY THE ELECTION!” As if ALL elections aren’t “bought.”
Actually, I’d be more likely to vote for someone that matches my views and ONLY spends his own money on the campaign. If a politician takes money from ANY group they are beholden to that group for a vote favorable to their political position. A candidate that accepts no outside money and only spends his own, really only has to answer to the voters.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Go Joni, slaughter them hogs!
…Some clear-thinking-gutsy-lady…
…If I lived in IOWA I surely vote
for her… Wish my fellow Tennesseans
were as brave as Conservative Iowans,
and dump Lamar(RINO)Alexander in 2014!!!