Posted on 08/29/2012 12:45:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Family Research Council poll was conducted by Wenzel Strategies from Aug. 27 to Aug. 28, testing 829 voters for a margin of error of plus or minus 3.38 percent. The sample was 32.7 percent Democrats, 34.1 percent Republicans and 33.2 percent independents.
I don’t remotely believe that Akin is winning right now, but I also don’t believe that McCaskill’s double-digit margin will survive September. Hence Reince Priebus’s conundrum.
Roy Blunt also said this morning that he still thinks Akin will quit, but I’m not sure he himself quite believes it.
Supposedly people are leaning on Huckabee too to get him to change his mind and nudge Akin towards the exit. I don’t think that’s out of the question, actually:
Huckabee may be framing this as a “Mount Carmel moment” now, but if the polls still look awful for Akin in two weeks, he’s going to get nervous about being held responsible for almost singlehandedly propping this guy up on the way to defeat.
That’d be a major black mark on his record ahead of 2016, and he’s already got enough of those (the latest being his endorsement of Dewhurst over Cruz).
That’s what this FRC poll is all about, I assume — reassuring social conservatives who might be wavering in light of the recent gruesome polls from Missouri that Akin’s hanging in there.
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Agreed...to God, government is nothing but a necessary evil.
Actually, though I’m as pro-life a Catholic as they come, I’m a FISCAL conservative who believes we should have a military second to none and defense that puts fear into the hearts of potential enemies.
I tend to be a little more libertarian on the rest.
i.e. I’d vote for someone who bought Smith, Friedman, Hayek, etc. 100% but was a flip-flopper on social issues.
Wait a minute....I AM.
Look, I agree with everything Ayn Rand did, except for her atheism.
>And just who would that be?
I think the woman that ran in the primary would be a good start. I suspect akin would have lost the primary if not for the democrat “support” he got.
>The problem is, eventually you have to replace a “generic” Republican with a real one.
Yes, but for this race akin blew it so we first need to get an R in the seat. Then that issue can be dealt with later with someone who can speak intelligently.
No Christian, nor conservative can be libertarian as defined by their party.
Don’t agree with much of the (L)ibertarian Party. They’re isolationist surrender monkeys.
I’m more of a small-”l” (l)ibertarian.
I think people are pretty much rational enough to think for themselves.
I think you merely spell it liberal with some conservatism.
You sit on a wobbly, contradictory stool.
Kind of reminds me of Stuart Smally in Minnesota!!
Caesar been dead a lot of years. However, perhaps the prayers were carried by Saints or Guardian Angels.
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