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Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
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I remember seeing all this Hilary crushing trump in the polls and bro won... Fucking vote and fuck the polls
No, you didn't see this poll predicting Hillary crushing Iowa.
The Selzer poll is one of the best, it only looks at Iowa, and in 2016 it was one of the few that said Trump was doing much better than everyone expected.
In 2020 it said Biden was doing better than Clinton, but Trump was nevertheless doing better than expected.
In both cases, it was spot on. And this year, it says Trump is doing far worse than everyone thinks.
That said... Go vote!
Anecdotally, I've seen a good lot of houses with local Republican candidates that don't have Trump signs. Some only have Trump signs.
I had made a comment a while back about only seeing Trump signs outside of my Iowa community. Almost immediately after I said that, there were a good chuck of Democratic signs starting to pop up, which is way more than the one or two I had seen previously.
I don't know that I've seen crazy amounts of flipping or anything like that, but it was a noticeable difference that I wasn't specifically looking for.
People are taking this one seriously because it was one of the few calling for a Trump win in 2016 while all the other polls got it wrong.
It's not a guarantee but she's been wrong by at most 5 points before. It's a really good sign for Harris.
That said everyone should take the Mike Murphy poll of "my candidate is down by 1 point go fucking vote"