IA-SEN 2022: Grassley vs Franken

[Politician]

To all Democrats reading this: Please donate as much money as you have to her campaign.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-franken-outraises-abby-finkenauer-221203819.html

Mike Franken leads the pack in fundraising against Abby Fink

[JMT]

https://twitter.com/ap_politics/status/1534358249767587840?s=21&t=DzWWa6RKMD...

[Perlen vor den Schweinen]

IA-SEN 2022: Fink not on general election ballot

[Pink Panther]

LOL

[wesmoorenerd]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

I am a kingmaker

[VAR]

This is too funny.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Since this race was never going to be competitive anyway I'm glad she lost just so we can stop with the stupid ass memes about her here.

[Morning in Atlas]

Just mindblowing stuff. The single worst Senate campaign I've seen - at least Braley, Gideon, and Lamb made the ballot!

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Franken is a blue dog and so is Ryan and Crist, if Ryan can win so can Franken, Ryan is leading

[Mr. Smith]

Good to see, too bad the year is wrong.

Time to see if Franken can prove better than Greenfield, as I've long suspected.  Or at least not end up like Patty Judge.

[Bernie Derangement Syndrome Haver]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

What were the expectations in 2018?

[wesmoorenerd]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

What were the expectations in 2018?

Rod Blum was seen as one of the likeliest incumbents to go down. While he did end up losing, Finkenauer's margin was decidedly underwhelming.

[Politician]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

What were the expectations in 2018?

Rod Blum was seen as one of the likeliest incumbents to go down. While he did end up losing, Finkenauer's margin was decidedly underwhelming.

Not to mention the idiot GOP triaged that seat because they wanted to waste money trying to hold VA-10 and similiar districts.

Blum probably wins that race outright if the GOP isn't run by idiots.

[Minnesota Mike]

LOL at the thread title change.

[South Dakota Democrat]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

What were the expectations in 2018?

Rod Blum was seen as one of the likeliest incumbents to go down. While he did end up losing, Finkenauer's margin was decidedly underwhelming.

It was 5 points.

[wesmoorenerd]

My god, is this the third election in a row that she's underperformed compared to expectations? Maybe she's just a bad candidate.

What were the expectations in 2018?

Rod Blum was seen as one of the likeliest incumbents to go down. While he did end up losing, Finkenauer's margin was decidedly underwhelming.

It was 5 points.

Perhaps this says more about unreasonable Democratic expectations than it does about Finkenauer, but I remember people were expecting Blum to get downright blanched that year.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

A second consecutive GE loss would have been terminal for her political career. My guess is that this also spells curtains for her, but maybe when Franken loses, she’ll be able to spin some argument about electability.

[wbrocks67]

Good to see, too bad the year is wrong.

Time to see if Franken can prove better than Greenfield, as I've long suspected.  Or at least not end up like Patty Judge.

It's too bad, Greenfield was a solid candidate. Joni "Karen" Ernst is so out of touch with Iowa that it's sad she was able to win again

[Politician]

Good to see, too bad the year is wrong.

Time to see if Franken can prove better than Greenfield, as I've long suspected.  Or at least not end up like Patty Judge.

It's too bad, Greenfield was a solid candidate. Joni "Karen" Ernst is so out of touch with Iowa that it's sad she was able to win again

Yes, Joni Ernst is the one who's out of touch with a rural, Trump +8, overwhelmingly white state

[Unelectable Bystander]

Good to see, too bad the year is wrong.

Time to see if Franken can prove better than Greenfield, as I've long suspected.  Or at least not end up like Patty Judge.

It's too bad, Greenfield was a solid candidate. Joni "Karen" Ernst is so out of touch with Iowa that it's sad she was able to win again

Yes, Joni Ernst is the one who's out of touch with a rural, Trump +8, overwhelmingly white state

Lol yes if only there was a way for the state to determine which candidate is more in touch with their needs

[NewYorkExpress]

Former Representative Jim Leach endorses Franken and Christine Bohannan . Not only that, but he's apparently switching parties too.

Former eastern Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach is trying something new this election cycle — endorsing and voting for Democrats in Congress.

Leach represented Iowa in the U.S. House as a moderate Republican for 30 years until he lost reelection to former Rep. Dave Loebsack, a Democrat, in 2006.

He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020. But for the first time, he said he switched his party registration from R to D to vote in the 2022 June primary.

Leach, 79, said the switch was prompted by a Republican Party that he described as lurching to the right in its support for Donald Trump leading up to and after Jan. 6, and lying about the results of the 2020 election.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Former Representative Jim Leach endorses Franken and Christine Bohannan . Not only that, but he's apparently switching parties too.

Former eastern Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach is trying something new this election cycle — endorsing and voting for Democrats in Congress.

Leach represented Iowa in the U.S. House as a moderate Republican for 30 years until he lost reelection to former Rep. Dave Loebsack, a Democrat, in 2006.

He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020. But for the first time, he said he switched his party registration from R to D to vote in the 2022 June primary.

Leach, 79, said the switch was prompted by a Republican Party that he described as lurching to the right in its support for Donald Trump leading up to and after Jan. 6, and lying about the results of the 2020 election.

Based, but I think he has a much more open view than most of the electorate ever will.

[SCNCmod]

I did not see a 2022 Senate Thread for Iowa in directory..  

(If anyone is From Iowa- Please give us a lay of the land in the Senate race). Based on recently articles- The race appears to be much closer than expected... the famed Des Moines Register poll (Oct 15th) has Grassley leading 46-43.  But perhaps most up in the air- how many of the remaining 9% of voters ending up making their decision based on Grassley Age? (The Poll has Franken leading among Ind's 46-35 ...and the bulk of the undecided voters appear to be ind's).

Senator Chuck Grassley (R)
Vice Admiral Michael Franken (D)

A few factors that may have Republican popping a bead or two of sweat
1) Grassley would be 95 or 96 when his term ends if he is re-elected (a couple of articles suggested that Grassley has finally reached an Age that is likely to actually prevent some people from voting for him)
2) This election is the 1st time Grassley has ever been running with an Approval rating under water.
3) Michael Franken seems like he's turned out to be a stronger than expected candidate.  He is a  Vice Admiral in the Navy (retired in 2017, as Dep Director of US Africa Command).