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Rounds support falls to 35% in South Dakota race
Public Policy Polling ^ | October 2, 2014

Posted on 10/04/2014 11:23:19 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Public Policy Polling’s newest South Dakota Senate poll finds that Mike Rounds’ support has dropped all the way down to 35% in the wake of voter anger over the EB-5 scandal, and that Rick Weiland continues to be better liked and within single digits of Rounds.

Key findings from the poll include:

-Rounds is at just 35% to 28% for Weiland, 24% for Larry Pressler, and 8% for Gordon Howie. A majority of South Dakotans have a negative opinion of Rounds, with just 41% rating him favorably to 51% with an unfavorable opinion. Weiland’s favorability, at a positive 42/38 spread, is a net 14 points better than Rounds’.

(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2014election; annebosworth; eb5; election2014; gordonhowie; larrypressler; mikerounds; polls; rickweiland; southdakota
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1 posted on 10/04/2014 11:23:19 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

Another Rick Berg?


2 posted on 10/04/2014 11:24:03 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ExTexasRedhead; ...

To paraphrase Tom Hanks, “Rapid City, we’ve got a problem.”


3 posted on 10/04/2014 11:25:31 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Viennacon

Yes, also another Denny Rehberg. Overconfidence can deliver a painful bite in the keister.


4 posted on 10/04/2014 11:26:58 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Watch Repubs win in purple/blue Colorado and Iowa. Then lose in deep deep red South Dakota and Kansas.

Lucy pulls the ball.


5 posted on 10/04/2014 11:41:49 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Can someone explain this for people who don’t live in South Dakota? What are the party affiliations (I recall that Pressler is a Democrat) and what is the EB-5 scandal?


6 posted on 10/04/2014 11:57:35 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Clintonfatigued

Can someone explain this for people who don’t live in South Dakota? What are the party affiliations (I recall that Pressler is a Democrat) and what is the EB-5 scandal?


7 posted on 10/04/2014 11:57:35 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Clintonfatigued

Party affialtions and background on the candidates would be helpful to those who do not follow every race meticulosly.

Rounds is the republican, Weiland is the democrat, Pressler is a former US Rep. and US Senator runing as a “centrist” and Howie is running as a conservative republican.

Although Mike Rounds support is dropping, he is still 8 points ahead of his closest opponent. All he needs is one more vote than Weiland to win.

The PPP article refers to a EB-5 scandal which involves immigrant funding of major business enterprises, some of which have gone bankrupt.

Rounds has also had to deal with fallout with his primary opponent Anne Bosworth who was arrested the day after the primary for election fraud. She is claiming a poltical vendetta from the Rounds camp.


8 posted on 10/04/2014 12:01:27 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Clintonfatigued

Well, let’s hope that the “most electable” Rounds holds out for another month.

By the way, if truth in advertising was prevailing, the linked “PPP” website/organization should be named progressiveprogressivepolling.com. They and their associated mainstream media cohorts are trying use their polling and discussion of their polling to advance the ‘RAT and discourage Republicans.


9 posted on 10/04/2014 12:12:01 PM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

If anyone in this country believes a PPP poll....they are insane, drunk, drugged or drinking too much “Obama” Kool-Aid!!! End of story!!!


10 posted on 10/04/2014 12:30:04 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Steven Scharf

Now what a second.
McGovern won on a recount
Daschle won on a recount.
Johnson won on a faulty computer and a scramble for votes in Pine Ridge.
One vote ahead ain’t gonna cut it
The dhimmicrats will be readu


11 posted on 10/04/2014 12:39:52 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: Steven Scharf

Now what a second.
McGovern won on a recount
Daschle won on a recount.
Johnson won on a faulty computer and a scramble for votes in Pine Ridge.
One vote ahead ain’t gonna cut it
The dhimmicrats will be readu


12 posted on 10/04/2014 12:50:31 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: nhwingut

I would suspect the voter demos have changed dramatically in SD over the last few years.


13 posted on 10/04/2014 12:56:10 PM PDT by chiller (NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
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To: Clintonfatigued

PPP is a Democrat polling outfit.


14 posted on 10/04/2014 1:12:53 PM PDT by Rob the Ugly Dude
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To: Clintonfatigued

Whoa.. this was one of the four I’ve been expecting the GOP to gain in November.

Amazing how that party’s candidates flame out in time to lose.


15 posted on 10/04/2014 1:26:54 PM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: ScottinVA

IMHO, Kristi Noem should have been the nominee.


16 posted on 10/04/2014 1:30:51 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Steven Scharf

Presler was a former Rep, more specifically he was the Lindsey Graham of his day.


17 posted on 10/04/2014 1:51:40 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Exactly!


18 posted on 10/04/2014 1:52:48 PM PDT by proudpapa (Scott Walker - 2016)
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To: ScottinVA
Whoa.. this was one of the four I’ve been expecting the GOP to gain in November.
Amazing how that party’s candidates flame out in time to lose.

Especially Alan Keyes vice Jack Ryan versus Barack Obama in 2004 Illinois Senate seat. Just the name "Hussein" alone should have lost him the seat against an Illinois native WASP. Horrible IRP tactic!

19 posted on 10/04/2014 2:32:39 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Viennacon; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; randita; BillyBoy; InterceptPoint

There have been exactly zero polls showing Weiland ahead or even above 30% as far as I know. No recent poll has showed Pressler with a “safe” lead above the low double digits. So why start panicking now? PPP is a rat pollster. A poll last week had Rounds up 39%-26%. PPP is a MOE away from that same result.

If they had pulled a Kansas here and Weiland dropped out for Pressler, I’d be worried, if Pressler dropped out for Weiland I’d be somewhat worried. But as long as both of them are on the ballot then I see close to ZERO % chance that Rounds doesn’t win.

It will be with a plurality, unimpressive, but big deal. If rats wanna waste resources on this race, I hope they go for it.


20 posted on 10/04/2014 4:39:30 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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