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DSCC Poll Shows Musgrove Leading In Miss. Senate Race
CBS News ^ | May 20, 2008 | Josh Kraushaar

Posted on 05/21/2008 4:52:23 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Just one week after Democrats picked up Sen. Roger Wicker's (R-Miss.) former House seat in northeast Mississippi, the party's Senate campaign committee released a new poll showing Wicker trailing former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D) in November's special election Senate race.

The poll shows Musgrove leading Wicker 48 to 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup. Musgrove holds a 57 percent favorability rating, while 30 percent of voters view him unfavorably. Wicker also sports high approval ratings, but is less known throughout the state - which is partially attributable for his polling deficit.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; ms2008; musgrove; polls; wicker
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It’s not a question of how many Senate seats the Republicans will lose but how many. Thanks for that little summary of the contested races. I don’t much care for the likes of Collins or Dole, but it would hurt to lose people like Cornyn, Roberts, McConnell, and my own Senator Sununu.


21 posted on 05/21/2008 8:29:51 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes, Sanford would be the ideal candidate to run for President. I really do admire Sanford for his integrity. As a Congressman, he voted against pork for his own district. Plus, he honored his term limit for serving only 6 years in Congress. Also as Governor, he mustered up the courage to say no more pork to his own party. Politicans like Sanford are a gem.


22 posted on 05/21/2008 8:33:31 PM PDT by yongin
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To: Clintonfatigued

Notice in dark blue states, Dem politicans have poor approval ratings due to corruption and incompetence, but get elected anyway. In today’s political climate, the voters dislike Republicans more than Dems. Thus liberal judges are issuing unashamedly left-wing rulings (gay marriage, partial birth abortion), knowing Republicans are unpopular and unable to fight back.


23 posted on 05/21/2008 8:39:57 PM PDT by yongin
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To: Clintonfatigued

Yes, on paper, but I feel like NJ is the perennial rope-a-dope for Republicans. Just as we think we’ve got a shot, they KO us in the end, by any dirty trick necessary. Plus, too, the Republican nominee isn’t settled, and all of them carry baggage.


24 posted on 05/21/2008 8:41:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Just one week after Democrats picked up Sen. Roger Wicker's (R-Miss.) former House seat in northeast Mississippi, the party's Senate campaign committee released a new poll...'nuff said.....
25 posted on 05/21/2008 8:51:22 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: LiveFree99

It’s gonna hurt, period, but it’s the difference between a modest loss (say, 3 seats) that we could reclaim in another cycle, or a ghastly loss (11, or 14 if the apocalypse strikes) that would be so bad it would take 2 decades to recover from.

1958 was the worst year in the 20th century for the GOP in Senate losses (not even 1936, in which we had the lowest numbers of members since the party’s founding did we lose as many). We entered into the election with just a 2-seat difference (49-47, sound familiar ? Like out 51-49 margin currently) and by the time the dust settled, we lost THIRTEEN seats, dropping from 47 to 34 (amongst the Dem winners was a 3-term House member named Robert Byrd, who beat the last Republican elected Senator from WV).

The Dems gained 15 seats (because of the Alaskan elections, which sent 2 more Democrats), leaving them with a virtual 2/3rds majority, 64 to 34 (98 seats until the Summer of ‘59 when Hawaii was admitted - which would add 1 seat each for both parties, to 65D-35R). Not from 1958 until the 1980 elections did we ever eclipse the 47 seats we held at that point (indeed, we were in the minority from the death of Sen. Bob Taft in the Summer of 1953 until January 1981). Think this country could last 27 1/2 years of Senate Democrat rule today, nevermind 40 years of House rule ? We’ll be a third-world dictatorship by then.


26 posted on 05/21/2008 8:54:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: yongin

Oh, yeah, he has really pissed off the porker establishment in the SC GOP something fierce. That’s EXACTLY who needs to be pissed off. But take a look at how vibrant the party is under him. 2006 was an awful year elsewhere and we held like a stone wall in that state, even with a crap candidate for Lt Governor.


27 posted on 05/21/2008 8:57:03 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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