Grade Bruce Braley's campaign

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I give him a D, but only because he's gonna win despite running an F quality campaign.  Which is impressive in a pathetic and embarrassing sort of way.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I give him a D, but only because he's gonna win despite running an F quality campaign.  Which is impressive in a pathetic and embarrassing sort of way.

That's debatable after being down 6 in a Seltzer poll and having been tied/trailing in almost all polls for the last month.  He might win, but I'd give him a 45% chance at best.

The media was surprisingly friendly to Ernst......people like Chuck Todd were kind of rooting for her to win just because Iowa's never had a female congressperson. Other female conservatives have not had such luck. This helped her in addition to Braley being a doofus.

I just saw the poll, switch it to an F

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I don't really know that he did that much wrong. He made a pretty bad gaffe in the summer, I guess. But otherwise his campaign has been fine. Nothing inspiring obviously, but not godawful. The problem has been that the media's been in the tank for Ernst because she's photogenic and has a compelling personal story, and so they've been eager to attack Braley over the dumbest non-stories but completely unwilling to actually discuss Ernst's extremist positions.

Yeah, the media's been pretty much in the tank for Ernst