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Poll: Webster Beats Down 'Angry' Grayson
Sunshine State News ^ | October 26, 2010 | Kenric Ward

Posted on 10/26/2010 5:39:22 AM PDT by Scanian

Holding a steady 7-point lead over a controversial and increasingly malodorous incumbent, Republican Daniel Webster is poised to knock out U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, a new Sunshine State News Poll shows.

Webster, a former state senator, leads Grayson, D-Orlando, 48-41. Florida TEA Party candidate Peg Dunmire garnered 4 percent, No Party Affiliation candidate George Metcalfe got 1 percent, and 5 percent of respondents were undecided.

In a previous poll, conducted Sept. 25, Webster led Grayson 43-36, an identical 7-point margin.

"Webster has to be the favorite here. Grayson has failed to turn his negative image around, and is still viewed in a negative light by a 55-38 margin," said Jim Lee, president of Voter Survey Service, which conducted both polls. "This means Grayson has very little if any room to grow."

While Webster's negatives climbed 12 points since the earlier poll, undoubtedly spurred by Grayson's relentlessly negative advertising, the Republican maintains a relatively healthy favorable/unfavorable rating of 47/33.

Lee said nothing has changed the "fundamental equation for Grayson" in Central Florida's 8th Congressional District, where President Barack Obama gets a 52 percent job disapproval score (vs. 51 percent last month).

"Given that this district leans Democratic in raw registration numbers, Grayson's only hope is to turn out his base at a higher rate than the opponent's," Lee said.

(Excerpt) Read more at sunshinestatenews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: fl8th; grayson; malodorous; negativeimage; registrationnumbers
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1 posted on 10/26/2010 5:39:26 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

No amount of words can express my happiness at this development. If the world ended the day after this maggot’s defeat, I’d still be happy.


2 posted on 10/26/2010 5:41:14 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Scanian

Malodorous-finally a word that describes Grayson.The Moet
is on ice for Tuesday!


3 posted on 10/26/2010 5:42:46 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Then, we need to find out what happen to all the money he took in from sucker lefty donors.

Every time he slandered the GOP, the megabucks started to flow from the simple-minded.

Grayson isn’t the dummy-—the people who support him are!


4 posted on 10/26/2010 5:43:30 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Is the Tea Party candidate one of those spoilers set up by the Dems?


5 posted on 10/26/2010 5:47:47 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Scanian

Grayson is not angry, he’s rabid.


6 posted on 10/26/2010 5:48:14 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: JulieRNR21
Grayson's only hope is to turn out his base at a higher rate than the opponent's

Or perfecting the fraud we expect to see throughout this country on November 2nd. I hope the GOP is armed and ready!

7 posted on 10/26/2010 5:49:05 AM PDT by StarFan
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To: Doogle

Bet he ends up as an analyst on MSNBC.


8 posted on 10/26/2010 5:49:42 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: Scanian

It makes me angry that this race is this close. It amazes me that in a “swing” district, that many people are OK with Grayson’s gutter behavior.


9 posted on 10/26/2010 5:50:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: StarFan

So, 41% of the the voters in the district are morons?


10 posted on 10/26/2010 5:54:13 AM PDT by quatro
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To: Doctor 2Brains
No amount of words can express my happiness at this development. If the world ended the day after this maggot’s defeat, I’d still be happy.

I guess I am a glass 1/2 empty guy. I have the exact opposite opinion. While I am glad the evil grayson will be gone...It saddens me tremendously that a district would be supporting such a man to the tune of 41%.

I weep for my country when 41% of ANY part of the country is so far gone as to support this piece of human debris.

11 posted on 10/26/2010 5:56:47 AM PDT by NELSON111
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“So, 41% of the voters in the district are morons?”

Next question.


12 posted on 10/26/2010 5:58:55 AM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: Scanian

Please let it be so.

I’m so sick of in-your-face leftists I’m ready to swing.


13 posted on 10/26/2010 5:59:36 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

If you check the demographics of FL-8, you’ll find that it is now 18% Hispanic. In that part of the state “Hispanic” means Puerto Rican more often than not and they are mostly transplants from either the island or the Northeast who have brought their liberal voting habits with them.

Not unlike the Northeastern “transplants” who have made Broward and Palm Beach Counties solidly “D” for decades.


14 posted on 10/26/2010 5:59:52 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

The Devil and Daniel Webster


15 posted on 10/26/2010 5:59:57 AM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

He is a Democrat.
The Democrat Propganda Machine,a/k/a main stream media support him. His supporters [people] do not have the intelligence to get in out of the rain. and last but not least, tDemocrat voters would prefer living as slaves on freebies [to them] stolen from the producers by the Government and given to them.


16 posted on 10/26/2010 6:00:29 AM PDT by sport
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To: Rational Thought

if MSNBC is still around


17 posted on 10/26/2010 6:00:44 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Red_Devil 232
That is correct. Rat sponsored TEA.
18 posted on 10/26/2010 6:02:42 AM PDT by JPG (Sarah Palin says: "Buck-up or get out of the truck.")
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To: Scanian

Looks like my congressman can join Ed Schultz on their new show “Al And Ed Insanity Reigns.” Oh by the way I did not vote for him just moved here.


19 posted on 10/26/2010 6:04:46 AM PDT by vicar7
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To: NELSON111

This has been a refrain of mine since joining FR just a few days ago. The ENTIRE nation is swamped by ignorant, mindless FOOLS. Obama is president, Pelosi is SOH, Reid is SML... What other possible commentary on the American voting public do you need?


20 posted on 10/26/2010 6:05:39 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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