Actually ‘a lot’ is exactly 2.
http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/senator-thad-cochran-underdog/
“Cochran’s 2013 score from the Club for Growth was 56 percent. Only two GOP senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, had lower scores.”
I totally agree that he is bad on economic issues, and I said so. My original post, and subsequent ones, dealt with the issue of amnesty, abortion, and obamacare, and only to protest that his positions on those issues were significantly different from the democrat. I even noted that his abortion record isn’t spectacular, but did earn him a 0% from NARAL.
People got really upset about that, but I stand by my position that on those three issues, the establishment would NOT be able to claim victory if Cochran had won, because his official record on those issues were not inline with the establishment.
Note also I certainly did not say, and could not predict, whether Cochran would CHANGE his positions on any of those things if he won. But I also can’t say that we KNOW how McDaniels or any other person would vote after winning an election — we’ve been burned enough to know that there is rarely a sure thing unless someone has already been in office long enough to prove themselves on the national stage.
Remember that Ayotte was tea party, and Rubio was also a big tea party favorite at one point.