Posted on 03/15/2014 8:27:31 AM PDT by Din Maker
South Carolina Republicans like former Florida governor John E. “Jeb” Bush for president, while continuing to support Sen. Lindsey O. Graham for re-nomination against a host of conservative challengers.
“Jeb Bush shows strength across many of the poll’s crosstabs and was the choice of 22 percent of the respondents compared to his 16 percent in our November poll,” said Doug Kaplan, the president of Gravis Marketing, the Florida-based polling company.
“In the GOP Senate primary survey, Graham polled 60 percent against the field compared to his 54 percent in our November poll,” he said. In the case that no candidate receives more than 50 percent in the June 10 primary, the two top vote getters run in a runoff primary.
Jackie Bodnar, a spokeswoman for Freedom Works said the field of challengers is still taking shape and shaking out. “The filing deadline is not until the end of the month, and I think that’s where you’re going to see a lot of the grassroots start to unify around a single challenger. Unity is going to be key in taking on an entrenched Beltway operator like Lindsey Graham.”
After Graham, respondents chose state Sen. Bright Lee, 10 percent; liberal operative Nancy R. Mace, 7 percent; Richard Cash, 4 percent and lawyer and Afghanistan War veteran Bill Connor, 2 percent.
“These findings really stretch credulity,” Bright said. “There’s not a group of Republicans outside of the Senate dining room where Lindsey Graham is in the 60s.”
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I didn’t know anything about her either. But it sounds like the reporter could have an axe to grind, supports another candidate, and sees her as a spoiler who shouldn’t be in the race.
In before the... If you don’t vote for the R, you are voting for the D crowd and/or third party voters are the reason we are in this mess crowd.
With Ms Lindsey, it’s he might be a faggot but he’s our faggot. My brother has lived in SC for the last 40 years and he said most republicans despise Ms. Lindsey, but he has 20 times as much money as the nearest challenger.
stay out of da bushes.
If those two are the country's only choices then say hello to President Hillary!
It's a tradition in Southern politics, transcending partisan lines. Consider, for example, the saga of longtime North Carolina Democrat leader R.C. Soles, who specializes in molesting teenage boys.
What are they thinking?
Secede again. PLEASE!
Liberal Democrat-Republicans in the South. I don’t get it.
But it does explain why establishment RINOs put SC early in the primaries and winner-take-all.
(Conservative states like Texas come later and proportion their delegates so those states have no influence.)
Riding the hellicopter....
Barf alert.
if the Tea Party supporters can’t get behind ONE candidate to defeat Graham, what use is it?
Probably not a smidgen of real difference between them except style and the measurements of ankles, which if it is cankles, Hillary wins. If you prefer a less screeching NWO shill and more petite cankles, Jebbie is the man.
Both taking us on a trip to the global outhouse, just using a different trail to get there.
That is why they all hang out together to circle jerk. Puke!
I see the media are hot on the trail to pick our Republican nominee, again.
McCain, Romney, Jeb......
HumanEvents is a neocon operation that has always promoted Linda Graham.
And Nancy Mace is no liberal.
You’re right.
But it does explain why establishment RINOs put SC early in the primaries and winner-take-all.
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But, don’t forget: Newt Gingrich won SC in 2012. He’s no Liberal.
I live in MA. The favorite states for emmigrants are Florida and NC. I'm sure SC is close behind.
We are starting to get the yankee effect in GA also. They move down here to get away from the socialist destruction and then vote to turn our state into the same chitehole they left behind.
Yes, there are plenty of NE transplants here. SC is a schizophrenic state for the GOP. Unfortunately, we have too many “natives” who will vote for whoever the gopE puts out there and they like it that way. On the other hand, we have plenty of right-wing-extremists who will do the right thing and try to get rid of him.
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