Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) is the favorite to win his party's nomination and the right to seek his old job again this fall, a new Public Policy Polling (D) survey finds. But in this anti-establishment year, the former four-term executive is not the runaway choice.

Gubernatorial Primary Election Matchup
(474 LVs, 5/25-27, MoE +/- 4.5%)
Branstad 46
Vander Plaats 31
Roberts 13
Und 11

Because it's Iowa and because we're already looking toward the presidential caucuses, it's worth noting that this race has reignited a battle. Mitt Romney has endorsed Branstad, while 2008 caucus winner Mike Huckabee has endorsed and campaigned with Bob Vander Plaats.

In another primary in the Hawkeye State next week, PPP finds attorney Roxanne Conlin leading the Democratic field in the Senate race. She's at 48 percent, well ahead of Bob Krause (13 percent) and Tom Fiegen (8 percent); 31 percent are undecided. Notably, the Des Moines Register endorsed Fiegen this weekend, saying of Conlin: "we were surprised and disappointed she was not knowledgeable about and so oversimplified the details of important policy." The winner faces Chuck Grassley in a race RCP calls Likely Republican.

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