Posted on 07/08/2010 3:35:53 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The Illinois Senate race remains a virtual tie, but Republican Mark Kirk’s support appears to be trending down.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Illinois shows Democrat Alexi Giannoulias earning 40% support to Kirk’s 39%. Nine percent (9%) favor some other candidate in the race, and 12% are undecided.
This is the first time Kirk’s support has ever fallen below the 40% mark. From February through June, he consistently attracted from 41% to 46% of the vote.
This marks the first time since March, however, that the Democrat has risen out of the 30s. His support against Kirk since February has ranged from 37% to 44%.
Kirk, a member of Congress since 2001, has apologized in recent weeks for false claims on his military record. Giannoulias, meanwhile, remains under fire for his ties to the family-owned Broadway Bank, which failed and was seized by federal regulators in April of this year.
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The mob baker is in the lead, woo hoo!
Both are typical Chicago pols. Kirk is a RINO, pure and simple, and far more liberal than some think. Gianoulias (or however the hell one spells his name) is just scum, and part of the corrupt Chicago Democrat Machine.
Mark Kirk has been slamming Giannoulias with a barrage of negative TV ads, so I don’t see him dropping out. If he does quit the race (very unlikely), I’d be very intrigued by Joel Pollack, who’s running a brave campaign in the 9th. Congressional district.
Any way both these retards can lose?
Wish it were so. But it’s going to come down to a guy who will rubber-stamp 100% of whatever Obama and the Democrats want, or a guy will will only vote for half of it. Kirk will go wobbly on the social stuff but has a pretty solid conservative record on financial issues. Right now that is what is most important, along with denying one more automatic D vote in the Senate.
I know right. Kissinger’s famous quote applies here.
“Any way both these retards can lose?”
Very amusing. Only if Kirk were to drop out, and I don’t expect that, given the aggressive attack ads he’s runnning. In fact, I think that Kirk has bottomed out. He will likely regain the lead over Giannoulias once his heavy spending takes effect.
Ping to this comment for laughs.
Excellent point. I know that Kirk's record is easy to dislike and any support I have for him is with fingers firmly pinching the nose.
If Kirk won’t drop out (which, as you noted, will not happen), the GOP should run Congressman Peter Roskam, who is a solid conservative and would almost certainly beat Giannoulias. I don’t think that Joel Pollack has the profile or experience to win a Senate race in Illinois.
Oops, I meant “if Kirk drops out”
Hell, run him even if he doesn’t. Kirk is the only “R” Senate candidate I am openly rooting for to lose. We’d do better with Alexi until he goes to jail, he won’t be as much of a threat or embarrassment to the GOP.
:’D
How about if a state is insolvent their senators can’t vote in Congress.
“Kirk will go wobbly on the social stuff but has a pretty solid conservative record on financial issues.”
Are you kidding? He supported Cap-n-Tax!
You have supplied my giggle for the day.
Kirk supports the largest tax hike in the history of this country.
- Kirk voted with Taxpayers for Common Sense 33% of the time
- Kirk voted with The Club for Growth 19% of the time (9 / 48 votes)
- Kirk voted with Citizens for Tax Justice 17% of the time
- Kirk voted NO to H.J. Res. 3-Releasing Funds for Economic Stabilization Act (this act was sponsored by Republicans after the first 300 billion dollars went unaccounted for to block the remaining funds from being released without oversight)
- Kirk voted YES on Cap-n-Trade, the BIGGEST tax increase in U.S. history (the ONLY Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted yes!) (HR 2454)
- Kirk voted YES on Democrat Charlie Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax (H.R. 1586)
- Kirk voted YES on Overseas Military Facilities Abortion funding (H.R.708)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R.2 - the Democrat's SCHIP Program-basically an expansion of welfare (includes $1 tax on cigarettes to "fund" the program)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R. 3997-First Economic Bailout Package (this is the one that failed the first time through), then voted YES on HR-1424:Second Economic Bailout Package (this one was bigger than the first!)
- Kirk SUPPORTED HR 2, Nancy Pelosi's minimum wage hike that exempted businesses in her own district (Kirk excuse is that he didn't read the bill)
·- Mark Kirk voted to approve nearly $200 million for the Air Force to purchase three luxury aircraft for ferrying top government office and Members of Congress.
- Mark Kirk claims that he opposes all congressional earmarks, yet sponsored $74,766,000 worth of earmarks from 2008-2010, including $4,725,000 worth of SOLE earmarks requests for himself. See all of "fiscal conservative" Mark Kirk's earmarks here: http://www.legistorm.com/earmarks/details/member/320/Rep_Mark_Kirk/page/1/sort/amount/type/desc.html
- Mark Kirk was ONE of only two Republicans NOT to co-sponsor auditing the Federal Reserve.
- Mark Kirk voted to approve a $140,000 earmark for ACORN's New York office.
- Mark Kirk OPPOSED Republican Senator Jim Bunning's (R-KY) stand to use existing Stimlus funds for the extension of unemployment benefits, and supported the Democrat legislation to pay for it using a new $10 billion expansion to budget deficit.
Where in Sam Hill did the big lie that Kirk was a fiscal Conservative ever get started ? Probably from his own press release. That’s the same bull$hit the media has spread for 50 years about “Moderate” (sic) Republicans. Those “Moderates” were never fiscal Conservatives, never. Their patron saint, Nelson Rockefeller, as Governor of New York, went on such orgiastic spending sprees as to make a lot of liberal Democrats blush with embarrassment. Anyone who has ever been to Albany, NY to see the Empire State Plaza (not to be confused with the Empire State Building in NYC) can see the billion dollar nightmare (in 1960s dollars, mind you) he shat up right in the middle of the downtown. Walking through the underground portions, which look like a fascist Sci-Fi ‘70s film, you hear the strains of John Williams’s “Empire March” from Star Wars playing in your head, expecting Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and other Stormtroopers to march past you...
Need I also mention Ah-nold out in California who has already made his liberal Democrat predecessor look as tightfisted as Calvin Coolidge ?
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