Who will win in Iowa?

[Maxwell]

I have to say I genuinely don't know. Ernst is way to the right of Iowa, but Braley's campaign has thus far been a disaster, and he's blown a decent early advantage. Toss-up.

[Maxwell]

Braley; at least he has Walsh making him look good now

Or there's a possibility it's a meme of flopping Democrat candidates for Senate.

[Maxwell]

Where does this whole joke about Bruce TRYING to lose come from? Sorry. This race wasn't really on my radar until it tightened with Ernst.

The fact that Republicans nominated a joke candidate and are still competitive tells you everything you need to know about Braley.

Uh, no. The joke candidate would have been Sam Clovis.

Yea, Clovis would've completely blown it. That being said, Ernst was a far worse general election candidate than Mark Jacobs. Still, it says something about how good of a candidate Jacobs was that he started out ahead and ended up in 3rd place.