Lindsey Graham Tanks Among Republicans

fitsnews.com ^ | 4/17/13 | fitsnews

[cotton1706]

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s approval rating among Republican voters in South Carolina has plunged by fourteen points in just two months – evidence of growing dissatisfaction with his increasingly leftward ideological bent.

According to the results of a new Winthrop University poll, Graham’s approval rating among GOP voters in the Palmetto State is 57.5 percent – down from 71.6 percent in February.

“This drop corresponds to the entry of two vocal challengers, and discussion of a third, into the primary race against him,” the Winthrop pollsters note.

It also comes on the heels of Graham’s high profile attack against fiscally conservative U.S. Sen. Rand Paul last month.

Among all registered voters in South Carolina, Graham’s approval rating stands at 43.9 percent – while 39.8 percent disapprove of his performance.

Graham has already drawn a pair of socially conservative challengers for next summer’s Republican primary election – S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) and former congressional candidate Richard Cash.

Meanwhile, contemplating a bid is Nancy Mace - the first woman to graduate from The Citadel (South Carolina’s military college) and a co-owner of this website.

The Winthrop poll surveyed 1,069 South Carolina adults from April 6-14. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

[cotton1706]

What a beautiful headline!!

[basil]

YA think? LOL!

[Dick Bachert]

Hey, all you incredibly dumb and uninformed Americans, I’m Lindsey Graham. I’m a really, really, REALLY smart lawyer from South Carolina. Almost as smart as John Edwards and Elena Kagan.

Because I am from South Carolina, some of you uninformed BIGOTS might call me a “cracker.”

Actually, that suits me just fine because that would make me a Graham Cracker. So if you don’t like my position (most often bent over Obama’s or Harry Reid’s desk) on globull warming, immigration, the Kagan nomination or those OTHER unimportant issues (I slept through those classes on factual evidence in law school) – because I AM a Graham Cracker -- y'all can

BITE ME!

[LibLieSlayer]

Throw his well buggered butt out of office!

LLS

[lula]

Hooray!

[Sir Napsalot]

Finally!

Lindsey might just switch to Independent then, don't think the Left would welcome him.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Lindsay has hitched himself to a falling star; Juan McStain. Now he’s going to get primaried. Thank God!

[tatown]

Instead of ‘tanks’ a better way to say it would be to simply say that Lindsey ‘goes down’.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Retirement from Congress would give Lindsey more time to fight in all those wars he’s anxious to get the US in. He might do good work for al-Qaeda in Syria or maybe he can parachute into Iran to save the world from the unstoppable Persian juggernaut.

[skinkinthegrass]

that's Linda!

[GilesB]

Why don’t 15 or 16 MORE conservatives run against him in the primaries? That way, the conservative vote will be diluted and he will win all the stupid-party GOP votes, and stay in office!! THAT is a darn fine strategy, and with 2 announced and 1 “considering” we have a very auspicious beginning toward such an outcome.

[skinkinthegrass]

that's Linda!

[ken5050]

"Tanks"

You're welcome!!!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Well, until actual election day, it’s good to have more than one....but yes, such an outcome is a potential problem. Then again, there is no “they” calling the shots. All of these folks want to be Senator. Our inherent flaw....

[lodi90]

SC has an open primary. He is acting like a “moderate” Dem to attract Dem votes in the primary. The system is broken. We need closed primaries in all states.

[Lancey Howard]

Meanwhile, contemplating a bid is Nancy Mace - the first woman to graduate from The Citadel (South Carolina’s military college) and a co-owner of this website.

[Yogafist]

Am I missing something? 57.5% of Republicans still approve of the job he is doing? We have bigger problems than just our rino leaders.

[TomGuy]

Don’t get too excited. He’s an incumbent. Incumbency is difficult to beat.

IIRC, 6 years ago, general polls showed him in decline too, but he got reelected by a wide margin.

[ExCTCitizen]

Lindsey Graham Tanks Among Republicans

South Carolinaa should elect a CONSERVATIVE...

[ArcadeQuarters]

How does this guy even get elected? I thought South Carolina was more conservative than that.