Posted on 04/27/2010 8:17:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Unless Sen. Bob Bennett's political fortunes change dramatically in the next two weeks, he could become Utah's first incumbent U.S. senator to lose his party's nomination in seven decades.
A new Salt Lake Tribune poll of Republican delegates shows Bennett running in third, behind GOP challengers Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater.
Lee logged 37 percent support in the survey, while Bridgewater came in at 20 percent, and Bennett lagged at 16 percent.
The survey of 400 Republican delegates, with a 4.4 percent margin of error, was conducted April 22-25 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C. It comes less than two weeks before the May 8 state GOP convention.
"Bennett has almost no shot of getting more votes at the convention than Bridgewater and Lee," Brad Coker, managing director at Mason-Dixon, said Monday.
And in a Republican race where only two can survive, that would spell the end for the three-term senator.
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We told you conservatives in Utah wanted him gone.
This is good. There is no reason in a conservative state like Utah to have any representative but the most conservative one. We need a revolution not a spinning glass door.
Mitt Romney’s mojo is being tested here.
Hatch...needs to go next!
Romney has little “mojo” where it counts.
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