Posted on 09/14/2010 5:14:41 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters in the U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Another 3 percent are undecided and 11 percent of those who do name a candidate say they could change their mind by Election Day.
(Excerpt) Read more at quinnipiac.edu ...
This poll is always at least a 5 point skew twards the Crats.
McMahon is not a great candidate and is suffering from MSM bias, yet she’s still in the game.
People are tired of RINOs as well as DEMS.
Greetings from Right Principles:
Details on the Obama fundraiser for Dick (I served in Viet Nam) Blumenthal are beginning to come in. Following is what we know as of today:
Thursday, Sept. 16th
Click above for map. It should show you both the train station and the Marriot. This is in the opposite direction of last year’s event.
Time: 3:30pm on.
Guests are required to be in the hotel by 4:30pm for security reasons so we will want to be out there giving them an earful as they arrive. Obama will likely arrive by 5pm. All five of the CT congressional reps are sure to be there as well.
The Stamford police advise me they will give us a choice location as close as possible to the Tresser Blvd. entrance. There is plenty of parking in the immediate area – particularly at the Stamford Town Center mall across the Blvd. and the Marriott is an easy walk from the Stamford Metro North station. As soon as I know our protest location I will follow with additional advice. Please help us turn out a good crowd – this is likely our last chance to give him a piece of our minds before the election. Bring large signs protesting any of the myriad, odious, Obama-promoted legislation of the past 18 months.
Stay tuned.
In liberty,
Bob MacGuffie
Right Principles
The idea of sitting this out and letting Blumenthal win is so sickening to me that I can't put it into words. If you knew Blumenthal you would understand.
She is the only candidate I am getting mail from—at my PMB.
That is a very good sign. She will outshine B on TV—and I predict an upset win.
Don’t worry about the RINO stuff—she will vote with Republican leadership on key issues. It is the leadership caving in to lobbyists that we need to be worried about...
I'm not from CT, but I've heard what an a*****e he is. A glorified ambulance chaser.
Quinnipiac University polls are terrible outside of CT and NY (especially in Florida, where they insist on polling quite frequently), and even in CT and NY they usually have a bit of a Democrat bias. If Q shows McMahon within 6% of Blumenthal, that means that the race is pretty much neck-and-neck, which Rasmussen polls have not yet shown. This is great news for McMahon. I am a bit skeptical of this poll, though, because only 4% of likely voters responded tha they’d vote for someone else or were currently undecided, and 7 weeks from election Day one would expect the percentage of undecided voters to be closer to 10%.
On a tangentially related note, if RINO Castle loses the nomination in DE today, we may need RINO McMahon to win in November in order to win the Senate and, among other things, replace liberal Pat Leahy with conservative Jeff Sessions as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I think that a good question to ponder is who would be a more disreputable Senate nominee, O’Donnell in Delaware or that GOP Senate nominee from 2006 (Schlesinger?) who had been banned from Foxwoods Casino for counting cards?
Her tv commericals are good in a soft, non-threatening way.
The answer is C) Al Franken.
Real moral Conservatives will only make a difference. McCain is already back to his old ways. A RINO is a liberal.
You make a great point about this poll: any poll that has 4% undecided at this point is pretty much worthless. There really isn’t any information to be gleaned from it, since they are either eliciting surety from people who are really undecided, or they are narrowing the “likely voter” group to an unrealistically small camp that it.
But you are not correct about Castle. Castle is in real trouble, and would probably lose the general election (things have changed dramatically over the last two months). Plus, Castle would not come into the Senate as a normal junior Senator. He would immediately be one of the top decision makers within the Republicans in the Senate, and he is an active enemy of conservatism. He would be an absolute disaster for this country, in a way that other RINOs wouldn’t.
Not sure why you would think that. There are two kinds of people in CT basically. Those that hate/abhor Blumenthal and those that are liberals to the bone. There isn't much else in CT especially in likely voters.
Obama is going to campaign for Blumenthal. That should lose him 5% points.
No fair. Tossing in a Democrat’s name is cheating, since you could pick a Democrat nominee at random and there would be a good chance that he or she would make Schlesinger and O’Donnell look like Daniel Webster (the 19th century Senator, not the current congressional candidate, not that the current guy isn’t good, too) by comparison. : )
I think that Castle would still be the overwhelming favorite in the general election, even if O’Donnell runs as a write-in (as she did in the 2006 U.S. Senate race after finishing a very distant third, with like 11% behind the two frontrunners with 41% and 40%; O’Donnell got 4% of the vote as a write-in), and that in the Senate he would not be any more powerful than fellow freshman RINO Mark Kirk. Yes, Castle’s voting record will be pretty bad, but nowhere near as bad as Coons’s record would be, and there’s a pretty good chance that picking up the DE Senate seat could be the difference between Leahy or Sessions as Judiciary Chairman.
So while I can appreciate your sentiments, I still think that we should hold our noses and elect Castle, and then convince a qualified conservative candidate (perhaps a young conservative elected to the state legislature this year) to take Castle out in the 2014 primary.
Believe me, there have been a lot more polarizing figures in other states than Blumenthal is in CT, and undecideds are almost never as low as 4% of likely voters with 7 weeks to go. In any event, compared to someone like Jesse Helms, who was loved by 45% of NC voters and despised by another 45% (which explains why he never got 55% of the vote), Blumenthal is a uniting figure in politics. (And since Blumenthal has been winning with over 60% of the vote for years, it seems to me that he hasn’t been very polarizing until very recently.)
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