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Saturday Actually Brought Us Another Iowa Poll With Very Different Results

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    -26% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    26% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : The poll's write-up includes a graph showing how 76 percent of Trump supporters are indeed "extremely" or "very enthusiastic" about voting for Trump, with a plurality, at 40 percent, saying they are "extremely enthusiastic."
83% : When it comes to some of the good findings for Trump in this Des Moines Register poll, there's the enthusiasm factor for Trump.
71% : "A victory for Harris would be a surprising development after Iowa has swung aggressively to the right in recent elections, delivering Trump solid victories in 2016 and 2020," the Des Moines Register write-up acknowledged.
69% : As the poll's write-up mentions:One aspect where Trump does better than Harris: A greater share of his supporters than hers say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about their pick.Seventy-six percent of Trump supporters say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about their choice, while another 23% say they are mildly or not that enthusiastic.
56% : Trump won Iowa by close to 10 percentage points in 2016, though, and by a little over 8 percentage points in 2020.
51% : Not only is it unlikely that such results are what will come to be, given what that would mean for trend lines, and how Trump handily won the state in 2016 and 2020, but because there was another poll released on Saturday showing very different results.
49% : "Both female and male voters in Iowa support Trump, women by a five-point margin, 51% to 46%, and men by a significant 17-point margin, 56% to 39%," Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, is quoted as saying.
43% : "A victory for Harris would be a shocking development after Iowa has swung aggressively to the right in recent elections, delivering Trump solid victories in 2016 and 2020," one of the write-up's "Key Points" mentioned.
39% : "Trump also leads among independents, 53% to 36%.
37% : Again, there's been lots of chatter over this poll, and that includes how legitimate it may be, or if it's one of those recent efforts to drive up momentum for Harris and away from Trump.
25% : He also referenced a poll from Emerson College/RealClearDefense, released on Saturday night as well, which showed Trump leading by 53-43 percent against Harris.

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