Iowa State Fair Straw Poll Results

[Classic Conservative]

https://sos.iowa.gov/statefair2016.html

As of today:

Donald J. Trump: 49% (2,578 votes)
Hillary Clinton: 36% (1,908 votes)
Other Candidates: 15% (789 votes)

Corn Kernel Poll

Donald J. Trump: 56% (29,997 votes)
Hillary Clinton: 44% (23,663 votes)
https://mobile.twitter.com/timmyg62/status/766750280884944896/photo/1

[Devout Centrist]

Man I remember President Michelle Bachmann. That straw poll was the first of many successes for her.

[Classic Conservative]

Man I remember President Michelle Bachmann. That straw poll was the first of many successes for her.

That wasn't this poll. That was the GOP sanctioned poll this is just the one run by the SOS at the State Fair. Its not scientific but we had a thread for this for the primary.

[Pyro]

lol Iowa straw polls

[Speed of Sound]

Are there any previous GE results from this one?

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Are there any previous GE results from this one?

http://whotv.com/2012/08/20/iowans-choose-romney-in-who-hds-cast-your-kernel-presidential-poll/

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

The uneducated and the bigoted are really coming out of the wood work this election.

[Lief 🗽]

Are there any previous GE results from this one?

http://whotv.com/2012/08/20/iowans-choose-romney-in-who-hds-cast-your-kernel-presidential-poll/

So Trump is doing 6% worse than Romney did. SAD!

[Speed of Sound]

Are there any previous GE results from this one?

http://whotv.com/2012/08/20/iowans-choose-romney-in-who-hds-cast-your-kernel-presidential-poll/

So Trump is doing 6% worse than Romney did. SAD!

Yeah, it actually seems a place where Trump should do better than Romney....or at least get 50%....

[Erich Maria Remarque]

IA = Safe R confirmed.

/s

[Bismarck]

Interesting. Love the Iowa state fair.

[Seriously?]

The uneducated and the bigoted are really coming out of the wood work this election.

Yeah, you're right. You have a lot of those from the party of Robert "KKK" Bird that support Hillary Clinton because they want more free stuff.

[Incipimus iterum]

The uneducated and the bigoted are really coming out of the wood work this election.

Yeah, you're right. You have a lot of those from the party of Robert "KKK" Bird that support Hillary Clinton because they want more free stuff.

Byrd

[LLR]

The uneducated and the bigoted are really coming out of the wood work this election.

Yeah, you're right. You have a lot of those from the party of Robert "KKK" Bird that support Hillary Clinton because they want more free stuff.

Go back to Stormfront

[OneJ]

Can someone tell me what is seemingly making IA trend Republican while other battleground states and even traditional red states like SC and MS trend in the opposite direction? I understand that the demographics favor the GOP for the most part, but I'm just curious.

[LLR]

Can someone tell me what is seemingly making IA trend Republican while other battleground states and even traditional red states like SC and MS trend in the opposite direction? I understand that the demographics favor the GOP for the most part, but I'm just curious.

-It's like 96% white
-It's very religious
-The republicans there are very dedicated and would likely vote for Karl Marx or Josef Stalin with an (R) by their name

But I'm not an expert.

[indietraveler]

Can someone tell me what is seemingly making IA trend Republican while other battleground states and even traditional red states like SC and MS trend in the opposite direction? I understand that the demographics favor the GOP for the most part, but I'm just curious.

The republican trend is slight, if there's even any trend at all. I don't believe there's any significant trend. I hope people realize a state fair poll is going to attract more rural Iowa citizens who are more likely to be republican lol. Honestly, I'm surprised Trump didn't show a higher result here.

[DINGO Joe]

Corn prices suck--Thanks Obama!

Corn prices are awful, mainly due to a huge crop, on top of several years of good crops.  There used to be waves of discontent over farm prices in the US, but I don't know if there are enough farmers left for that to still occur.

[Bismarck]

. If she had been in favor of TPP though I think some farm groups may have backed her over Trump, although most rural folks are not farmers of course. Democrats will struggle with rural whites as long as a large part of the democratic base views rural whites as the bogeyman of the world.

[Classic Conservative]

I've updated the OP with the WHO-HD Corn Kernel Poll

[Alcon]

Can someone tell me what is seemingly making IA trend Republican while other battleground states and even traditional red states like SC and MS trend in the opposite direction? I understand that the demographics favor the GOP for the most part, but I'm just curious.

Trump is doing worse among whites with a college education, and better among whites without one.  In a state like Iowa, which has many Democratic-voting whites without college educations, this is relatively good for him.  In a state like Georgia, where Republicans were already winning almost all votes of non-college educated whites, and yet there are plenty of previously GOP-voting college-educated whites, it's relatively bad for Trump.

[Classic Conservative]

Updated Results; Trump almost at 30,000 votes and Clinton almost at 24,666 votes.