Posts Tagged ‘Iowa Poll’

While President Obama’s favorability rating is upside down nationally, TheIowaRepublican.com’s recent statewide poll shows the President with a 51 percent favorability rating in Iowa.  The President’s unfavorable rating was 46 percent. Even thought his favorability rating is better in Iowa than across the nation, the 34 percent of people who have a strongly ... Full story

Believe it or not, the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is already underway in Iowa.  Potential candidates like Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich are already making frequent visits to the state that hosts the First-In-The-Nation Caucuses. While most people, including most Iowans, think that ... Full story

TheIowaRepublican.com will release the results of its Battleground Poll tomorrow morning. The poll surveyed 399 Republicans across the state and asked them who their choice for the Republican nominee for president would be. TheIowaRepublican.com commissioned the poll in conjunction with Concordia Group LLC, an Iowa based public affairs company. The poll surveyed 399 Republican ... Full story

Today is the last day that independent candidates have to file the necessary petitions to be on the ballot this fall.  Normally, independent candidates don’t make much of an impact on elections, but as we have seen with Ross Perot’s presidential run in 1992, strong independent candidates can alter the outcome of an ... Full story

Last fall, Iowa Democrats proclaimed that Senator Chuck Grassley would be in for the race of his life in 2010.  The Iowa Democratic Party then recruited Roxanne Conlin, a millionaire trial attorney, to run against him.  The Iowa news media also began to speculate about the serious challenge that Conlin would pose to Grassley. Everything went ... Full story

Terry Branstad’s record as a political candidate is about as impressive as any that you will ever find.  His record isn’t impressive just because he has never lost an election, it’s because he has been remarkably consistent throughout his political career. Despite having to endure two strong primary challenges in his political career, Branstad has ... Full story

Political newcomer Matt Schultz leads incumbent Secretary of State Mike Mauro in TheIowaRepublican.com Battleground Poll.  Schultz leads Mauro 33% to 30%, but the poll also shows that 35% of those surveyed have not made up their minds about the race. Schultz told TheIowaRepublican.com, “These numbers are encouraging, but it won't change what I'm doing. ... Full story

Perhaps no statewide Republican candidate has energized the base of the party like Brenna Findley has with her campaign for Attorney General.  The enthusiasm towards her campaign was on display at the Republican state convention a month ago when people eagerly grabbed her yard signs and waited to speak to the fresh-faced candidate. Another ... Full story

TheIowaRepublican.com recently commissioned two statewide polls in conjunction with Concordia Group LLC, an Iowa based public affairs company. The polls were conducted by Voter Consumer Research, a highly respected polling firm based in Washington D.C. Over the next few weeks, TheIowaRepublican.com will be releasing the results of the polls. All interviews were conducted via telephone ... Full story

Did anyone else think it was odd that Governor Culver’s abysmal polling numbers somehow avoided being the top story in the Des Moines Register? Heck, they were not even the top story in the metro section of the paper. Instead, they occupied the side column under the title, “Culver rating falls, even ... Full story