What is the Des Moines Register Hiding?
Governor Chet Culver can’t turn around without being confronted with new poll results that show him losing badly in a head-to-head match-up with former Governor Terry Branstad. In early July, TheIowaRepublican.com poll show Culver losing to Branstad by 16 points. Later that month, a poll commissioned by the Iowa First Foundation showed him losing to Branstad by 19 points. Now, the latest Rasmussen poll shows him down by 20 points. The latest round of polling numbers paints a much more disturbing picture for Governor Culver and his re-election team. While he continues to get pummeled by a well-known former governor, he also trails the lesser-known Bob Vander Plaats by four points. No matter how Culver and his team want to spin his poll numbers, the first term governor might be the first incumbent to lose re-election since 1962. Kathie Obradovich, the Des Moines Register political columnist, discredited the results of the Rasmussen poll because the poll is conducted using robo-calls. Obr
