Stupendous news! An extremist nutjob like Ernst has no business being a US Senator.
Is it possible that Braley is improving because of early voting? In other words, Dems are getting a lot of people out to vote who would normally be shut out of the LV screen, but you can't say someone who already voted isn't a likely voter.
It probably is helping , but it depends on the poll. Early voting definitely helped Braley on the Selzer poll, which used too tough of a likely voter model 2 months away from the election.
Honestly, the biggest problem from Ernst is that as the light shines on her more, her views for Iowa are problematic at getting to 50+%.
She would not be in this race if it wasn't for Braley's early mistakes, however, to his credit he has preformed well in the debates. The problem with that is very few watch the debates.