-Terry Branstad has the best approval numbers this month that we've found for him since he took office. 49% of voters approve of the job he's doing to 37% who disapprove. He leads a generic Democratic opponent in a head to head match up by an identical 49-37 spread. Who knows what the political climate will look like in 2014, but at least for now he'd be in good shape if he was up for reelection.
-Tom Harkin got a pretty easy ride to reelection in 2008 but if he runs for another term in 2014 it has the potential to be a strong Republican pick up opportunity. Harkin's approval numbers aren't terrible- 44% of voters approve of him to 38% who disapprove. But against a generic Republican foe he leads only 45-43. Given those numbers the GOP ought to be able to recruit a pretty strong candidate next time.
-Charles Grassley continues to be Iowa's most popular politician with 54% of voters approving of him to 30% who disapprove. He's at 49/31 with independents and even has crossover appeal to 29% of Democrats.
-Steve King continues to have negative favorability numbers with 29% of voters holding a positive opinion of him to 34% with an unfavorable one. That's actually up a net 6 points from July though, mostly because he's gone from 50/15 to 57/8 with Republican voters over the last month. Perhaps they liked his controversial comments last week.
-When it comes to college sports Iowa's appellation as the Hawkeye state doesn't come for nothing- 42% of voters consider themselves to be Iowa fans compared to 22% for Iowa State.
-And finally 52% of voters in the state think Mitt Romney should release 12 years of his tax returns to 39% who think he should not. Among independents the spread is 56/33 in favor of him releasing them.
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