It’s time for Iowa politics to abandon Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register.

For too long, we have let Ann Selzer use her polls to influence races. She is fully aware that her polls can influence voters. She said it herself in a guest column she wrote after the election, where she said: “I told more than one news outlet that the findings from this last poll could actually energize and activate Republican voters who thought they would likely coast to victory.”