Posted on 04/29/2014 7:29:57 AM PDT by GIdget2004
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis is holding a steady and substantial lead over his nearest challengers in a new survey of the Republican Senate primary there.
In the poll, conducted by the right-leaning National Research, Inc. for the conservative Civitas Institute, Tillis takes 38 percent support among GOP likely voters, with his next-closest primary opponent, Physician Greg Brannon, taking 17 percent support.
Baptist Pastor Mark Harris takes 14 percent, and about a third of respondents said they still don’t know who they prefer as the Republican nominee.
The survey tracks closely with another poll out last week from Civitas that showed Tillis taking 39 percent support and Brannon taking 20 percent.
That was the first poll to show Tillis opening up such a wide lead over his GOP primary challengers, but that survey and the newest one both have shown him just shy of the 40 percent he’ll need to avoid a runoff in the May 6 primary.
National Republicans call Tillis the strongest contender to take on first-term Sen. Kay Hagan (D) in the general election, a top target for the GOP this fall as they try to win a majority in the Senate.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Memo to all of those who support the NRA and National Right to Life - both are Washington inside groups who cow tow to the establishment, and have rushed to the support of Tillis even though every other Republican in the field is pro Second amendment (Brannon more than any of them) and pro life (Brannon and Harris more than any of them).
The large Washington groups...even the ones we typically are aligned with, are making it more difficult this round to send candidates to DC who are not drones of the leadership. A third party may be around the corner.
The other candidates ought to drop out and endorse the next closest ... Brannon
Not sure where the 40% threshold came from….
NRA supports many rats just so you all know...
Nobody is “nearing runoff threshold” with 1/3rd of likely voters “undecided”.
Murtha? I think that old bastard was from PA.
“...The survey was conducted among 600 likely voters, including 210 Republicans via landline and cell phone...”
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WTF? For a REPUBLICAN primary preference poll they only query 210 Republicans out of the 600 interviewed?
I call BS on this poll!
I wonder how much of Tillis’s support may be coming from cross over Dims.
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