From an AP analysis of the Iowa Ernst v Braley race yesterday, forwarded by GOPUSA.com
Republicans continue their improved push in 2014, narrowing Democrats’ traditional advantage after watching Democrats use early voting to help President Barack Obama win the state in both of his national victories.
The state GOP has made advance voting a priority for its Senate nominee Joni Ernst, who is trying to win the seat opened by Democrat Tom Harkin’s retirement.
However Joni Ernst was not influenced by the Republican bull sh*t (take it easy, she is a farm girl) hectoring everyone to vote early. Her disregard is evident from this The Iowa Republican article yesterday. The Iowa Republican, given their cheer leading for voting early, did not seem to pick up on the irony, unless they only mean to applaud voting early on election day.
After the West Des Moines stop, Ernst ventured to Ames for an 8:30 rally, 10:45 in Cedar Falls, 1 am in Ft. Dodge, 3:45 am in Sioux City and 6 am in Council Bluffs. Ernst planned to vote in her hometown of Red Oak at 7:45 am Tuesday.
Continuing from the AP article referred to above:
As of Monday, the number of ballots received was 108 percent of the 2010 total, with registered Democrats casting 40.9 percent of ballots and Republicans responsible for 39.2 percent. Four years ago, in a GOP wave year, Democrats led the early count by 5.5 percentage points.
Democrats’ say their analyses show they still have attracted more new midterm voters than Republicans, arguing that the GOP boost comes mostly from steering reliable supporters to early ballots, rather than voting on Tuesday, a shift that doesn’t change the bottom line.
We agree with the Democrat analysis to some extent. Unfortunately for them the bottom line for Braley was eight points under Ernst’s. R Mall
