That Iowa Poll? Dud Outlier

The Register reports: “Now, voters prefer a Democratic candidate by a 16-point margin in the 1st District, where Democrat Christina Bohannan, a law professor and former state representative, is in a rematch with Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who is seeking her third term.”

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Miller-Meeks first won her seat with 50.1 percent in 2020, but then defeated Bohannan in 2022 by nearly seven percentage points. It is highly unusual for a non-scandal-ridden incumbent to lose a House seat by 16 points. In the 2022 general election, only nine House incumbents lost.

Ed Morrissey

You know how I knew this was an outlier? Team Kamala sent exactly no one to boost that apparent advantage in Iowa -- not herself or Tim Walz, who lives next door to Iowa, not their respective spouses, and not their big-name surrogates. If this had any basis in reality, they would have flooded the zone this weekend. 

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