I'm going to lose by 2:1 thanks to Harry, Nasty and the Wee Wee
Posted on 03/23/2010 6:35:07 AM PDT by Zakeet
Two of the three top Republican hopefuls for the U.S. Senate in Indiana continue to hold double-digit leads over Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth. Ellsworth supported President Obama’s health care plan in a state where opposition to the legislation is higher than it is nationally.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds former Congressman John Hostettler with a 50% to 32% lead over Ellsworth, a current House member who voted with most other Democrats on Sunday to pass the health care plan. The survey was taken last Wednesday and Thursday nights. Fifteen percent (15%) remain undecided in that match-up.
Ex-Senator Dan Coats now posts a 49% to 34% lead over Ellsworth, with 12% undecided.
Ellsworth runs best against the third GOP contender, freshman State Senator Marlin Stutzman. In that match-up, Stutzman leads by just seven points, 41% to 34%. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.
In all three match-ups, roughly five percent (5%) of Indiana voters prefer some other candidate. All three Republicans held a lead last month just after incumbent Democratic Senator Evan Bayh’s surprise announcement that he was not seeking reelection this year.
Republicans will pick their Senate nominee in a May 4 primary. Ellsworth faces no major challengers for the Democratic nomination at this time.
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I'm going to lose by 2:1 thanks to Harry, Nasty and the Wee Wee
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Considering Obama’s popularity ratings in the face of the Health care bill, and the fact that they are not significantly depressed, while those of the Congresscritters who signed on to it are, indicates a serious disconnect in the public mind.
Most Americans are still identifying this bill with COngress and the Congressmen who approved it, rather than the master puppeteer behind them who crafted the ideology of it.
The GOP is going to sweep Congress, but they have to hang this Health Care Bill around Obama’s neck to make him pay in 2012.
“The GOP is going to sweep Congress, but they have to hang this Health Care Bill around Obama’s neck to make him pay in 2012.”
You can’t fix stupid.
If the Republicans can take both houses by 2012, that will be enough gridlock to make me hopeful. Obama is still the “cool black guy” to many in the public. The public has decided they like this guy, and nothing is going to change their mind. Well, until gas is $7/gal, their wages haven’t gone up, if they have a job, and it costs $35 for a loaf of bread. THAT will change their opinion of Obama.
What can I do to help Congressman Joe Donnelly get defeated? Is anyone running against him?
I think the public wised up to Elmer Gantry eventually.
Let’s hope the eventually isn;t too late.
I guess Pelosi and Reid are easier to hate, but they are, in the long run, far less dangerous than the machiavellian foreign mind esconced in the Oval Office.
Jackie Walorski is running a strong, well organized campaign against him.
Fantastic, that’s good to know. Donnelly had been listed as a possible ‘no’ right up until the end. I actually took the time to write him an email thanking him for his courage to stand against the bill. Stupid me, eh? So I have a personal vendetta against him now. Thanks for the info.
Good luck, know that you've got a great shot at it!
Who is the frontrunner in the primary? Dan Coats or John Hostettler ?
The primary is pretty early in the calendar so it will be a challenge to overcome Coats' initial lead.
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We have to have 51 senate seats to defund this.
If you know a senior or baby boomer - you need to tell them if this is NOT defunded then the rest of their life will be awful. Obama and his goons wants the $12 trillion in retirement, 401K and IRA money for reparations and social justice. This is what healthcare is about. Also no RINOs - no MCCains or we are SCREWED.
If we do not take the house and senate back then kiss it goddbye.
If the Republicans can take both houses by 2012, that will be enough gridlock to make me hopeful.
If they don't take back the House in 2010, I cannot imagine them ever doing it. Passion is white-hot now.
The Senate is another matter. Even the more optimistic scenarios show the GOP drawing to 50-50 after the 2010 cycle, with the tie-breaker going to VP Biden. We need everything to fall our way, and get one "shoot the moon" result in a Senate race that no one could have expected, in order to get to 51 Senators.
The Rassmuseen poll shows that Mitch Daniels has approvals at 69%. I would not be surprised if Obama forces Biden into retirement and picks Bayh as the new Veep. It would interesting to have the Presidential tickets to have people from the same state with that state being perhaps the tie breaker.
My Man Mitch is staying neutral. Pence backs Coats. While the IN Senate President is backing Stutzman.
Regarding Donnelly, I hate Notre Dame. The school gave Obama an honorary degree. Also Pelosi contacted some theology professors to get on Donnelly’s case to vote for ObamaCare.
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