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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWTF's wrong w/ Iowa? Trump has a 32 point lead over Biden in net favourability in the supposed 'gold
standard' Des Moines Register poll.Trump (+8 net) 53% favourable, 45% unfavourable
Biden (- 24 net) 37% favourable, 61% unfavourable
https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2021/10/04/iowa-poll-ratings-former-president-donald-trump-rally-des-moines/8378131002/
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Methodology and more detail:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21075990-methodology-for-10421-trump?responsive=1&title=1
Biden's national approval ratings from polls at the same time as the DM Register poll
Biden's national approval ratings from now, from the most recent polls (toss out Rasmussen of course, plus Trafalgar and Quinnipiac look like outliers, as does, in the other direction, Redfield & Wilton)
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Fuck Iowa's poll results.
Initech
(100,041 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)even though nationally he was way out ahead. That wasn't a surprise given previous IA polls. Biden team actually grimly planned for fourth; and the GOP-serving MSM, as they planned, rushed to declare Biden's candidacy dead -- and bury it.
Didn't work. But that is Iowa.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Just write off the state's electoral votes. No amount of money is going to change the outcome.
And quit holding the 1st Caucus there. They bring in a ton of revenue for the state, and they don't even like the Democrats, they just like the money they bring during the Caucus season.
elleng
(130,752 posts)in Iowa or ANYWHERE.
Celerity
(43,130 posts)we still need to invest time, effort and some money (for the House and Senate as well)
triron
(21,984 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)voted for trump.
Haggard Celine
(16,835 posts)They obviously don't have the best judgement, so who gives a shit what they think about Pres. Biden or Trump. I live in a state that would probably have similar results if they cared enough to do a poll here. We shouldn't get worked up over polls in states that are practically impossible for us to win, anyway.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)JI7
(89,241 posts)Celerity
(43,130 posts)You have to be a fucking idiot to vote for Trump and QMAGAt Rethugs.
PortTack
(32,710 posts)Celerity
(43,130 posts)sniffing too much cow manure.
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)Sorry Iowa, you deserve nothing from us, go to the back of the line where you deserve to be.
Fortunately, we dont need or count on Iowa to win National Elections.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)There's no major cities in Iowa. It's a wonder the state remained Democratic for as long as it did.
It's got more in common with Nebraska than it does with Wisconsin, IMO.
LonePirate
(13,408 posts)msongs
(67,361 posts)triron
(21,984 posts)'Idiots Out Walking Around'.
Have to remember that one.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Its been as bad as Iowa is now and for a much longer time.
triron
(21,984 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)They will go through the roof!
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)the repugs will take credit for it.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Write off this state and focus on Arizona, Georgia and NC at this point. Iowa is a lost cause
Red Mountain
(1,727 posts)Red Mountain
(1,727 posts)The Republican electorate has been pretty predictable....they don't admit they're wrong and gleefully double down on stupid.
Par for the course.
moondust
(19,961 posts)of decades of declining rural economies and schools.
Also, I believe TFG gave farmers big government handouts/bribes to compensate for his trade war with China that caused them to look elsewhere for soybeans and other farm products.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)over the last 40 years or so by talk radio, R-W cable news and now social media.
Republicans figured out the best emotional buttons to hit across the country many years ago. Basically, that means macho freedom and racism bullshit out West and religion plus racism bullshit in the South.
That's all......
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Then get down and dirty with the messaging. Propaganda...
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)It is a hard life. Most government programs to help never make it to small farmers despite all the promises.
Distrust of government is strong.
Wanderlust988
(509 posts)It's gone hard right more than any other state in the country. It's NOT a swing state! It's NOT a bellweather state! I really don't care how well Joe is doing in Iowa cause it's now a ruby red state with a nut for a governor and 2 nut senators. I have no idea why the media is still caring about what DMR's poll says of Iowa.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Most of the young, liberal Iowans have left for the larger cities, like Chicago, etc, etc.
Vinca
(50,237 posts)get people to spend their vacation dollars in Iowa. No thanks. I can't imagine encountering any of the people CNN interviewed at that rally last night who believe things like the national debt being the lowest ever under Trump and apparently seeing no correlation between 700,000+ dead people and Covid mismanagement at the beginning of the nightmare. Iowa might as well bill itself as "fantasy" land.