The two Iowa polls that could spell ruin for Republicans in 2018
by Philip Wegmann | Dec 14, 2017, 11:29 AM
If Iowa is any indication, Republicans are about to have a terrible, no good, very bad year in 2018.
A new poll by the Des Moines Register shows that 40 percent of Iowans would vote for a Democrat for Congress if the election was held tomorrow. Just 34 percent would pick a Republican. That’s a six-point difference and that’s a problem—particularly for the Republicans who hold three of the state’s four congressional seats.
After winning by not uncomfortable margins in 2016, Iowa Reps. Rod Blum, David Young, and Steve King are staring into an abyss in 2018. They have congressional inactivity to blame to be sure. But it’s not entirely their fault. Despite cozying up to the ethanol industry, Trump continues to lose ground in the corn-growing state.
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