The final Des Moines Register poll before the voting begins on Monday night shows Donald Trump with a narrow lead over Ted Cruz, 29-25%. Marco Rubio is 3rd with 15%. Ben Carson is 4th with 10% The rest of the field is in the low single digits. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a virtual dead heat. Clinton gets 45% of the vote with Sanders earning 42%. With the poll's margin of error at 4%, it appears that whichever candidate has the superior ground game and can generate the most enthusiasm to get their supporters to the Caucuses will prevail. Trump stands at 28 percent, while rival Ted Cruz has slid to 23 percent. But there’s still a strong case for Cruz in this race — he’s more popular and respected than Trump, the final Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll shows. “The drill-down shows, if anything, stronger alignment with Cruz than Trump, except for the horse race,” said J. Ann...(Read Full Post)