Posted on 03/18/2010 11:47:50 AM PDT by pissant
The Republican primary for the Senate in Arizona is tightening up, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday.
The poll found that former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) has closed to within single digits of incumbent Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), after trailing by 22 percent in January.
McCain now leads Hayworth 48 to 41 percent among likely GOP voters, with 8 percent undecided. The poll, conducted March 16, has a margin of error of 4 percent.
A majority of Republicans -- 60 percent -- have a favorable opinion of their senior senator, including 29 percent who view him very favorably. Thirty-six percent view McCain unfavorably. Hayworth's favorability rating is at 47 percent, with another 43 percent of Republican voters holding an unfavorable view.
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Exactly. Time to take out McCain. He was done for a LO-O-O-NG time ago.
Slaughter him JC!
Retire him...then on to sending the Kenyan home!
"I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have
no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 APR. 2004
McCain Keynote Speaker @ ACORN Feb, 2006
"I have to tell you, [Obama] is a decent person, a person that you
do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 10 OCT. 2008
[McCain] would be "...comfortable with a homosexual
as president of the United States."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 21 DEC. 1999
"I would rather have a clean government
than one whose — quote — First Amendment rights
are being respected that has become corrupt.
If I had my choice, I’d rather have a clean government."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 24 APR. 2006
"I think that gay marriage should be allowed,
if there’s a ceremony kind of thing,
if you want to call it that."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, FEB. 2007
"But certainly in the short term, or even the long term,
I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,
which would then force women in America
to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.”
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 24 AUG. 1999
On senior citizens: a group "that makes demands without contributing."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 20 JUN. 1986
"I'm not a socialist."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 18 FEB. 2010
"I believe climate change is real."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 23 FEB. 2010
"I have great respect for Al Gore."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 OCT. 2008
"In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics,
you’ll pay a heavy price. By the way,
I think the fence is least effective.
But I’ll build the G****mned fence if they want it!"
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, FEB. 2007
"We need to sit down as Americans
and recognize these are God’s children as well.
And they need some protection under the law;
they need some of our love and compassion
I want to assure you that I’ll enforce the borders first.
We’ll solve this immigration problem."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 28 NOV. 2007
"There are jobs that Americans will not do,
so we have to make it possible for someone to come
to this country to do a job that an American won’t do
and then go back to the country from where they came."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 16 OCT. 2004
John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts...
Send the old foghead to the corn patch J.D.!
Bless you....sometimes we forget..
Where can I donate to Hayworth! GO!!!
John McCain the man who brought us
The Gang of Seven (or was it eleven?)
Gun show controls
the McCain-Feinberg Act.
Tried to bring us the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Act
AND the man who did more than anyone else to put the Marxist Muslim in the White House.
14 I think.
That is great news, I’ll donate to JD again tonight.
God Bless ya!
Sarah Palin, you’re a fool for supporting that RINO. In my book you have lost almost total respect. If you run for POTUS you certainly will no longer be at the top of my list, Paul Ryan is my pick. I like ya, but your taking a stand on a dilapidated old way of politics, THAT AIN”T ROGUE SARAH... who ya going to be loyal to is the question... Go Hayworth, luv ya dude!
Palin, I understand, though I don’t like it. Why the entire GOP apparatus is behind McCain is more of a mystery. This is a primary, for craps sake - stay out!
McCain has a ton of name recognition and a ton of seniority, which is an advantage for any state to have in congress.
Hayworth has the support of real conservatives.
So, the question is whether enough voters are unhappy with McCain to kick him to the curb in spite of all that seniority and name recognition.
The fact that he is a well-known incumbent, yet has only 48% support, is cheering. It’s not infallible, but the usual rule that an incumbent with less than 50% is in real trouble.
We’ll see how strong the tea party movement really is in AZ, I think.
McCain will spend 10 million dollars. Either we fund Hayworth, or he will lose.
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