Bloomberg/DMR Iowa Poll: Senate Candidates Just a Point Apart
Bruce Braley and Joni Ernst are in a dead heat as they both call in surrogates to boost their candidacies.
Republican Joni Ernst, running for the U.S. Senate in Iowa, walks outside the Scott County GOP headquarters during a campaign stop in Davenport, Iowa, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. In Iowa, where a woman never has been elected to the U.S. Senate or governor, Republicans think their female candidate, Ernst, will enable them to reduce the gender gap.
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Bruce Braley should get Bill Clinton on an airplane to Iowa as quickly as possible.
His race against Republican Joni Ernst, which could determine control of the U.S. Senate, is all but tied — and the former president outshines all other Democrats tested as someone viewed as a helpful supporter, according to a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.