A new Des Moines Register poll out on Sunday shows the Senate race between Republican Joni Ernst and Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley to be virtually tied with a little more than 3 weeks before the election. Iowa's blitzkrieg U.S. Senate race is now a 1-point contest: Republican Joni Ernst is at 47 percent, and Democrat Bruce Braley is right at her heels at 46 percent with likely voters, a new Iowa Poll shows. As armies of Democratic activists go door to door urging Iowans to fill out absentee ballots, they're piling up votes for Braley, who was 6 points down just two weeks ago. "Braley's catching up," said J. Ann Selzer, the pollster for The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll, which was conducted Oct. 3-8. But Ernst has made gains, too. She's 3 percentage points higher than two weeks ago, when she was at 44 percent. The new poll reveals three potential reasons why this race has tightened in the final sprint: • The...(Read Full Post)