Ayya ​​huh! Shock vote in uncontested state shows Kamala to win

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

TOI Correspondent from Washington: Iowa, a non-contest state name after a Native American tribe meaning “sleepy ones,” has moved Presidential election 2024. Shock results in a well-regarded poll show Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump 47-44 — which is within the margin of error — in the first sign that she is competitive even in the American heartland, which is largely Trump territory.
Trump won Iowa in 2020 and 2016, and he was considered so far ahead (by 5+) that neither side bothered to start a campaign there, as is the case with 42 other states that go one way or the other with +5 , leaving only seven states in play. But a recent Des Moines Register-Mediacom poll three days before the election shows Harris wiping out Trump’s 18-point lead (when Biden was his opponent) and moving ahead.
The poll was conducted by Selzer & Co., a firm led by well-respected pollsters Ann Selzerwhich has a good track record of accurate voting. “It’s hard for anyone to say they saw this coming. She’s clearly jumped into a leading position,” Selzer told the local Des Moines Registered, which ran the poll with a banner headline “New Candidate, New Ballgame.”
Iowa has only six electoral votes, but the implications of the vote, if correct, will extend far beyond other Midwestern states where Trump is either winning (Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri) or in a tight race (Wisconsin, Michigan). The biggest takeaway from the Selzer poll is that women are going after Harris in a big way — probably far more than previous nationwide surveys show (+11). In Iowa, independent women support Harris by a 28-point margin, and senior women (65+) support her over Trump by a margin of more than 2-to-1, 63% to 28%.
“This is an amazing poll. But Ann Seltzer has as great a record as any pollster in predicting election results in her state.
Women are driving this wave. Sign for the country??” wondered David Axelrod, a political consultant and former aide to Barack Obama, even as Democrats cheered the vote.
The surge in female support for Kamala Harris appears to be driven not only by Trump’s technical restrictions on women’s reproductive rights through the Supreme Court, but also by his vicious attacks on women, often denigrating them as dumb, stupid and low-IQ when challenged .
Some of the trolling and denigration from his followers has been appalling. At a rally in North Carolina on Sunday, Trump spoke of his well-known horror that Harris had not worked at McDonald’s, when a supporter in the crowd appeared to shout “She worked on a corner!” implying she was a whore “Just remember it’s other people saying that, it’s not me,” Trump replied.
It was a tawdry departure from the grace shown by John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, when one of his supporters scorned Obama, saying he’s an Arab and can’t be trusted, and McCain immediately corrected her, saying : “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man, American citizen, and I just happen to have political differences with him.”
Trump has also offended many women with gratuitous comments about reproductive rights, including his latest boast — “I consider myself the father of fertilization.”