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Iowa- is Joni Ernst actually going to win? Is Braley just a really bad candidate? (Original Post) Beaverhausen Oct 2014 OP
Iowa vadermike Oct 2014 #1
Do you have any links? femmocrat Oct 2014 #4
udall vadermike Oct 2014 #8
GOTV. The only way to win. riqster Oct 2014 #2
so persuading voters hfojvt Oct 2014 #13
Damfino. But a good candidate is always helpful for GOTV. riqster Oct 2014 #14
Propaganda n2doc Oct 2014 #3
Wang's projections have been worse for us. Dawson Leery Oct 2014 #5
Ernst missed votes in campaign year napkinz Oct 2014 #6
How Does This GOP Senate Candidate Keep Getting Away With Such Terrible Gaffes? napkinz Oct 2014 #7
... napkinz Oct 2014 #9
New Audio of Joni Ernst Speech in 2013 Outlines Radical Ideology Built on Punishing the Poor (Audio) napkinz Oct 2014 #10
REPUBLICAN JONI ERNST PROMISES USE OF HER GUN IF GOVT. DECIDES ‘MY RIGHTS ARE NO LONGER IMPORTANT’ napkinz Oct 2014 #11
be nice to hear from some Iowans hfojvt Oct 2014 #12

vadermike

(1,414 posts)
1. Iowa
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 12:17 PM
Oct 2014

Actually Braley is now leading in a new poll out this morning , that should probably move wangs model back in our direction , control of the senate is 50 50 possibly better for us as things are starting to look better , I expect Udall to carry CO and Nunn is starting to look good in GA , Landreu is an expert at winning runoff a etc , let's do this GOTV !! Wait for wangs update tonite!

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
4. Do you have any links?
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 01:05 PM
Oct 2014

Udall was down by quite a bit a day or so ago.

I think Landrieu will pull it out in the runoff too. She always won those tight races in the past. I think Begich will win too, eventually.

vadermike

(1,414 posts)
8. udall
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:39 PM
Oct 2014

Udall has been up recently in YouGov and I beleive there was another one too where he was up 6.. the only one to show him trailing right now is FOX and they are known this cycle to overGOP by like 4 plus perecntage points or more..

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
13. so persuading voters
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:56 PM
Oct 2014

isn't an option?

I notice in this thread that nobody is saying anything positive about Braley.

Is he the lesser of two evils?

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
6. Ernst missed votes in campaign year
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:28 PM
Oct 2014

By John Bresnahan
10/9/14

Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst has been hammering Democrat Bruce Braley for missing votes and committee hearings on Capitol Hill while he was out campaigning.

Yet Ernst missed nearly 40 percent of the votes in the Iowa state Senate during 2014, as well as large number of committee meetings for the panels she serves on, state records show.

Ernst has also attended only a fraction of the meetings of the Iowa boards and commissions she has been appointed to since taking office in 2010.

-snip-

But her failure to take part in the state boards and commissions — after seeking these appointments to buttress her political resume — could hurt Ernst. For instance, Ernst was appointed to the Iowa Council on Educator Development in August 2013. She missed two of the council’s sessions in October and November, and, by January, was no longer listed as a member of the organization. The Iowa Republican was named to the Governmental Public Health Advisory Council in early 2011. However, Ernst has apparently not attended any of the group’s 18 meetings since then, according to its attendance records. Similarly, Ernst was tabbed for the Mental Health and Disability Services Commission in January 2013. However, she not attended any of the 20 commission meetings since that time.

-snip-

And Ernst took part in only two of the 32 sessions of the Statewide Interoperable Communications System Board since 2011.

read more: http://mobile.politico.com/iphone/story/1014/111705.html






napkinz

(17,199 posts)
7. How Does This GOP Senate Candidate Keep Getting Away With Such Terrible Gaffes?
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:35 PM
Oct 2014
Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst has called for impeachment, nullification, and the elimination of nonexistent treaties.

By Tim Murphy
Sep. 25, 2014


Here are a few examples of Ernst's out-there statements:

Ernst has alleged that the federal government is partnering with the United Nations to force Iowans off their land and into urban cores as part of a conspiracy called Agenda 21. At a campaign event last November, she said:

All of us agreed that Agenda 21 is a horrible idea. One of those implications to Americans, again, going back to what did it does do to the individual family here in the state of Iowa, and what I've seen, the implications that it has here is moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers, and then telling them that you don't have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and it's bad for the United States and bad for families here in the state of Iowa.


-snip-

She told the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition last September that federal laws can be nullified by states:

-snip-

She told the Des Moines Register editorial board in May that the United States really did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Per my colleague Pat Caldwell:

"We don't know that there were weapons on the ground when we went in," she said, "however, I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." When a Register reporter quizzed her on what information she has, Ernst said, "My husband served in Saudi Arabia as the Army Central Command sergeant major for a year and that's a hot-button topic in that area."


read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/joni-ernst-bruce-braley-agenda-21-conspiracy-theory





napkinz

(17,199 posts)
10. New Audio of Joni Ernst Speech in 2013 Outlines Radical Ideology Built on Punishing the Poor (Audio)
Sun Oct 19, 2014, 01:38 PM
Oct 2014

October 18, 2014
Josh Kilburn

Greg Sargent reported yesterday on a 2013 Ernst speech in which she outlines her “rather stark views about the relationship of Americans with their government.”

In it, Ernst claims that we have created “a generation of people that rely on the government to provide absolutely everything for them,” and that wrenching them away from their dependence “is going to be very painful.” …
In the audio, Ernst came out for a balanced budget amendment, said that would require “severe cuts,” reiterated her desire to eliminate the Department of Education, vowed a “good, hard look at entitlement programs,” and said electing a GOP Senate majority would be a key step towards all of this. She also said we are “encouraging people” to get on food stamps


“A generation” of Americans who “rely on government to provide absolutely everything for them.” Correcting this problem is going to be “very painful.” If she sounds like Mitt Romney, that’s probably intentional; there’s a lot of his “47% philosophy” in her words.

read more: http://aattp.org/new-audio-of-joni-ernst-speech-in-2013-outlines-radical-ideology-built-on-punishing-the-poor-audio/




hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
12. be nice to hear from some Iowans
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:53 PM
Oct 2014

but it is not like Iowa never elects Republicans - Grassley and their permanent Governor Branstad, for examples.

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