Biden Fades in Iowa Poll

11/2/20
 
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from The Rush Limbaugh Show,
11/2/20:

RUSH: Now, how many of you are familiar with something called the Iowa poll? The Iowa poll is a Des Moines Register poll that traditionally comes out on the Sunday before Election Day. And it is gospel. It has become a gospel poll. And the news in the Iowa poll on Sunday is devastating for the Democrats, devastating for Biden.

The released poll on the Sunday before the election is the one that everybody just huffs and puffs and pants and waits for. So one piece I have here is by John Ellis and it runs on the website Medium.

“Forty-one percent,” is how he begins the piece, 41%. He says, “I’ve been covering American politics for a long time and I can’t remember a number that so dramatically altered the political community’s perception of a presidential campaign as that number did, “What was remarkable was Biden’s 41%. What made it doubly disconcerting was the way The Des Moines Register (accurately) described the poll results: ‘Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded…’

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