IA-PPP: Braley (D) up 1.

[Free Bird]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

You're the one trying to start an argument. It seems like quite a few people here overestimate certain candidates, and Ernst is one of them. That's a certain degree of like.

There is a poster here who claimed that Ernst just misspoke and that Democrats were unfairly attacking her, so it's not like there is "nobody" on here who likes or supports Ernst.

It's not that people are overestimating her, it's that people are correctly estimating how bad a campaigner Braley is.

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[Never]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

[KCDem]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

Gross.

[Dixie Reborn]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

Gross.

I support Ernst. Btw it is not in good form to call people who don't agree with you "gross".

[free my dawg]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

Gross.

I support Ernst. Btw it is not in good form to call people who don't agree with you "gross".

Ernst is Michele Bachmann with a pitchfork. Supporting her is gross.

[Never]

I know people here really like Ernst, but this is fool's gold. At this point, if she can't manage an actual lead and none of her crazy antics have been put into ads yet, she's not going to win.

Nobody "likes" Ernst here, you're arguing with nobody.

Gross.

I support Ernst. Btw it is not in good form to call people who don't agree with you "gross".

Ernst is Michele Bachmann with a pitchfork. Supporting her is gross.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but I still like Ernst regardless of other people's negative view of her.

[Senator Cris]

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[free my dawg]

...and I'm also entitled to mine, and mine just so happens to be that Joni Ernst is a right-wing nutjob who should be nowhere near the Senate.

[JRP1994]

I just don't see a republican pickup here. Obama won the state handily in 12.

<6% ≠ handily

[Never]

...and I'm also entitled to mine, and mine just so happens to be that Joni Ernst is a right-wing nutjob who should be nowhere near the Senate.

I honestly didn't expect a gif of Taylor Swift raising her hand to cause the discussion we're having!

But anyhow, I like Ernst, you don't, and there's no problem with that. I actually found it pretty amusing that people chose "gross" as the word to describe my support of her.

[free my dawg]

...and I'm also entitled to mine, and mine just so happens to be that Joni Ernst is a right-wing nutjob who should be nowhere near the Senate.

I honestly didn't expect a gif of Taylor Swift raising her hand to cause the discussion we're having!

But anyhow, I like Ernst, you don't, and there's no problem with that. I actually found it pretty amusing that people chose "gross" as the word to describe my support of her.

Same. I mean I f**k with T-Swizzle (at least pre-Shake It Off) so you're good in my book.

So is everyone else, really.

[KCDem]

...and I'm also entitled to mine, and mine just so happens to be that Joni Ernst is a right-wing nutjob who should be nowhere near the Senate.

...and I extend that to people who support despicable candidates. If you support a candidate I find horrendous, that colors my opinion of you. The fact that you could support Ernst, who is arguably one of the most disgustingly extreme and perverse senate candidates this cycle, disgusts me and lowers my opinion of you. Sorry to come off as an ass, but it's my opinion

[TJ in Oregon]

"Perverse" is quite the charge, one that has gotten a poster banned from here for using before. What exactly has Ernst done that qualifies as perverse?

[KCDem]

"Perverse" is quite the charge, one that has gotten a poster banned from here for using before. What exactly has Ernst done that qualifies as perverse?

Perverse is a broad term. A politician can have a dystopian worldview, as Ernst does. A dystopian worldview is perverse. Calling something perverse is a commentary on a certain action's morality.

[TJ in Oregon]

"Perverse" is quite the charge, one that has gotten a poster banned from here for using before. What exactly has Ernst done that qualifies as perverse?

Perverse is a broad term. A politician can have a dystopian worldview, as Ernst does. A dystopian worldview is perverse. Calling something perverse is a commentary on a certain action's morality.

You've reworded the question without answering it. What exactly about her worldview is dystopian or perverse?

[KCDem]

"Perverse" is quite the charge, one that has gotten a poster banned from here for using before. What exactly has Ernst done that qualifies as perverse?

Perverse is a broad term. A politician can have a dystopian worldview, as Ernst does. A dystopian worldview is perverse. Calling something perverse is a commentary on a certain action's morality.

You've reworded the question without answering it. What exactly about her worldview is dystopian or perverse?

She has the temperament and depth of understanding of Sarah Palin grafted onto the ideology of Ted Cruz, what more can be said?

[Mr. Reactionary]

She has the temperament and depth of understanding of Sarah Palin grafted onto the ideology of Ted Cruz, what more can be said?

specific policies.

[Vern]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

[The Other Castro]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

To be fair, you are judging all leftists based on the posts of one KCDem

[Miles]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

To be fair, you are judging all leftists based on the posts of one KCDem

Yeah. As someone who frequents RRH daily, there's a lot of that coming from the other side, too. Anyways, making blanket statements is silly regardless.

[KCDem]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

If their views are despicable, then I will call you out on them. It's not hard to understand. Life isn't objective.

[Vern]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

If their views are despicable, then I will call you out on them. It's not hard to understand. Life isn't objective.

But who says your views on things are right? Because what is despicable to you may be very different than someone else.

[Vern]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

To be fair, you are judging all leftists based on the posts of one KCDem

You are right, it just makes me upset that one will call another person names because of the way they believe.

[KCDem]

I think it is funny how the left calls people names and degrade people for having different views then them... I thought y'all were suppose to be so tolerant ones..

If their views are despicable, then I will call you out on them. It's not hard to understand. Life isn't objective.

But who says your views on things are right? Because what is despicable to you may be very different than someone else.

I never claimed they were. I'm expressing my opinion.

[RINO Tom]

I just don't see a republican pickup here. Obama won the state handily in 12.

So?  Obama lost Arkansas and West Virginia in landslides in 2008, but they both sent Democrats back to Washington.  Obama won Maine handily, but it sent a Republican back to Washington with a huge margin.

Politics is still local!