Posted on 06/06/2014 1:02:08 PM PDT by cotton1706
A poll of Republican primary voters commissioned by The Daily Caller shows that GOP Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor is just above 50 percent in the hard-fought race for the 7th district nomination.
The poll showed that eight days before polling day on June 10, Cantor had firm support from 40 percent of 583 active primary voters, while challenger Dave Brat has firm support from 28 percent of those voters.
Another 12 percent of the respondents leaned towards Cantor, 11 percent leaned towards Brat, and 9 percent were undecided or declined to answer, said the poll, which was conducted June 2 by Vox Populi Polling.
That leaves Cantor with 52 percent support on June 2, his rival with 40 percent support, and 9 percent undecided.
For Cantor, that’s a sharp fall from 2012, when he defeated his primary opponent by 79 percent to 21 percent.
Cantor’s campaign office dismissed the poll. “We’re going to win by a much stronger margin… our internal polling shows that,” Ray Allen, Cantor’s campaign chief, told TheDC. Allen said he had not decided whether to release his own campaign’s polls.
“We’re gaining by the day, it’s going great,” Brat told TheDC as he walked on stage for another evening rally in Culpepper. Donations are coming in, and “we’re surging across the board… we’ll win by a few percentage points,” predicted Brat, an economics professor at a Virginia college.
Cantor’s modest lead is an warning for the GOP leadership, which is facing much criticism from its populist base, including from Tea Party members.
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praying for a miracle in va.
That leaves Cantor with 52 percent support on June 2, his rival with 40 percent support, and 9 percent undecided.
Even if all 9 percent goes to the challenger, doesn’t Cantor win by 3 percent. This article is not very well written not that it is any surprise these days.
Cantor is the kind of Pol who likes his issues to be like a cube. Why? because he likes to take 2 sides of an issue and have the option to have two more sides in reserve just in case the first two sides get him in trouble.
If the election is as close as this poll indicates then you can expect the GOPe to dirty their collective britches.
He is weak! We need to destroy him now!
VOTE FOR DAVE BRAT!
If you’re actively involved in the campaign, please PM me.
Good! Hopefully it changes even more for the worse for him before the primary.
This is a case where if Cantor does win the primary, conservatives should hold their collective nose a vote for the Democrat/Communist. Cantor is in a leadership position and he must be stopped.
i agree with you... and 3 percent is a comfy margin... (even though he won by a much greater margin last time)...
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