Posted on 03/04/2014 8:59:49 AM PST by cotton1706
A wealthy businessman with a strikingly liberal record is out to an early lead in the June 3 Iowa GOP senate primary.
Former energy executive Mark Jacobs has expressed support for cap and trade, Common Core, the Ryan-Murray budget compromise, and raising the debt ceiling. He donated to Arlen Specter after Specter switched parties to become a Democrat. And in a new campaign ad he says one of the best things about a strong economy is that it would provide the federal government more tax revenue.
Jacobs early lead in the polls – he's benefiting both from abundant personal resources as well as a field split across six candidates – has Hawkeye State Conservatives spooked that none of the several credible conservative candidates will emerge as the top Jacobs challenger.
Iowa Rep. Steve King told Breitbart News a nominating convention – which would occur if no candidate secured 35 percent – is still a possibility and would present some “interesting drama” if one candidate does not pull away from the pack. Six-term incumbent King is the last nominee chosen at a convention, and a convention in this year's Senate race would be only the 2nd such instance in 50 years, according to Roll Call.
Jacobs' wealth has helped him gain more name recognition statewide than his challengers and allowed him to present himself as a business leader who does not come from the political world to voters in all of Iowa's 99 counties. The former Reliant executive is leading a Public Policy Polling poll of GOP primary voters in addition to internal polls.
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Iowa hasn’t impressed me for about 20 years.
That is a DNC mole in the party.
“....he’s benefiting both from abundant personal resources as well as a field split across six candidates....”
THERE WE GO AGAIN.
Thank the Supreme Court for making money so important.
I served with Clovis in the AF and have known him many years. He’s the real deal but he doesn’t have any big backers. He is clearly the Constitutional conservative in Iowa. I sure wish Iowa would give him a chance to represent them on his own merits.
Yep.
What’s the problem? All some of you dimwits care about is the “R” anyway.
The fact of the matter is that the population of this country is too stupid to fix it.
“he’s benefiting both from abundant personal resources as well as a field split across six candidates”
wake up Conservatives; narrow YOUR field early; don’t lose a vote to a “plurality” winner
SIX (6!!) CANDIDATES!
It’s no wonder that Independent voters think that Tea Party Patriots cannot be trusted to “work together” for the good of the country...
How many of those SIX (6!!) have been financed by the Democrats?
Sounds like Bruce Rauner in Illinois - Rahm Emanuel’s choice for the GOP nomination for governor.
How many of those SIX (6!!) have been financed by the Democrats?
Couldn’t have been all of them. But it could have been some of them.
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