That’s not good. Braley has handed her a real opportunity with his gaffes. It’s too bad she cannot pivot for the close.
The polls are of registered voters from 2012 with no attempt at balancing. 80% landline v. 20% cell. I hope Ernst can pull it out.
We activists are alway red-meat types. But Iowa has a way of ignoring overt firebrands, and instead turning terrible speechifiers Terry Branstad and Chuck Grassley into institutions.
And Braley does not have Harkin’s natural appeal to Catholic voters in the eastern part of the state, so he’s got his own tough row to hoe.