Posted on 05/02/2014 6:02:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is running neck-and-neck with Republican challenger Monica Wehby, according to a new Daily Caller/Vox Populi Polling survey of registered voters in the state.
Wehby, a Portland-based pediatric neurosurgeon, received the support of 40 percent of respondents, while an additional five percent say they are leaning towards supporting the first-time candidate. Merkley, who was elected to the Senate in 2008, garners the support of just 39 percent of respondents, with two percent saying they lean towards supporting him.
Fourteen percent of voters said they do not know whom they would support.
According to Vox Populi’s Brent Seaborn, the poll shows that “the Senate race in Oregon is very much in play for Republicans.”
The poll also indicates that a plurality of voters in the deep-blue state see Obamacare as a mostly failed venture. Forty-six percent of respondents said Obamacare and Cover Oregon, the state’s disastrously flawed health care exchange, were failures, while 17 percent said they were successes, and 37 percent said they were “somewhere in between.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
It’s the go to line for liberal Catholics. I think it’s some kind of code for liberal Catholic voters who know abortion is wrong yet want to lie to themselves and pretend it’s a meaningful distinction to be “against it” while believing it should be legal.
Gabe Gomez is another RINO who’s used it. Usually it’s a rat.
As Pete pointed out, there are not a lot of Catholics in Oregon, so it’s weird she’d use it. Another sign that she’s not a very savvy candidate.
Oregon isn't going to have the perfect GOP candidate for U.S. Senate this year but Dr. Wehby is polling pretty darn good so far. How that washes out over time remains to be seen. As many years as I have been around it still astonishes me every time a goofball like Merkley (or Obama) gets elected but here we are and if it swings on a quarter of Portland (and always, so conveniently, the last one to report) it will be the goofball.
Meanwhile, between two 'pubs I will take a libertarian one who aims to repeal bad laws over a so-con who promises to make more (though I would still take either over any democrat socialist). It is NOT that I don't have socially conservative views, rather I think it is a situation akin to a house on fire, and the thing to do right now is extinguish the fire, before all other things.
I will never vote for libertarians either
I just sent my donations off for 2nd Quarter 2014
Poliquin ... Maine #2 (Open .. Primary)
Elise .... NY - 21 (open .. primary ...the Doug Hoffman district)
Greenberg CT-5 (versus freshman Esty)
Let’s get those small donors in the mail. Candidates need to show 400 individual donors each quarter.
if yer broak ... send $14 for ‘14.
I think we have too much of it and when a party comes along with a platform to repeal three old laws for each new one it passes I will be with them. And it matters more to me that large bodies of legislation need to be repealed than it does what they are, to be honest.
So I would probably cancel your vote on some issues now and then.
I would dump 95% of government. Libertarians will be happy with tyranny as long as drugs and sex flow free and have no age restraints
Matt Doheny better resign the Independence Line when he loses the GOP primary, last thing we need is him splitting the vote in November.
LOL! That was great!
Perhaps a small minority are in it for the drugs, and to them I say go ahead and ruin your body, mind, and soul. The punchline is when the real libertarians come out and say hey it was your deal, so you can wallow in the mess you made of yourself. I'll be with them. I have seen plenty of it in my lifetime and during that whole time it has been against the law, so I don't know what the accomplishment of prohibition has been other than a full employment act for jackbooted government thugs.
Sex, on the other hand, is mostly good and legal, and I think it ought to be encouraged in general. Just don't expect me to believe all forms of it are right and good all of the time or for all people, and on the same side of the coin, whatever forms of it you and I may not like, we can just not do them. All of that is rightly the business of families according to their own customs and values, and not the government. There are supposed "modern societies" on earth where people are told how to do it, showing what we could be if we went down that slippery slope, and I think you know what I'm talking about.
It’ll show how much character he has.
at the end of every quarter we should have a Freepathon for House candidates to get their numbers up.
Obviously, only attention to candidates with a serious chance of having a close race and to non-incumbents. A weekly thread on targeted races. Their are few targeted races for Freepers.
http://cookpolitical.com/house/charts/race-ratings
for example, Cook has 80 seats, but we can whittle it down.
CT-5 and ME-2 are the only New England seats of interest now. NH-1 and NH-2 can wait until after the primary I think.
eliminate GOP incumbents gets it down to 55 and then a bunch of races have RINOs running against DEMs.
Last week a freeper said adult-child sex should not be a legal matter
That is all I need to know about libertarianism
GOP has no small donor program which explains much. The only candidate I’ve seen that raised much from the under $200 category is Elise with $17k.
The whole party is run by 30,000 to 40,000 large donors ... the RINO establishment.
Which is why many of us donate to the candidates WE like, and stop giving to the RINO establishment.
“Which is why many of us donate to the candidates WE like”
YEs. There is a difference between “us donating” and a small donor program.
More than 2 million people have donated $25 or less to Obama
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81888_Page2.html
Yet, some of our top candidates for US House have 100 or 200 small donors x 100 candidates is fewer than 20,000 people. The GOP and conservatives do not have a small donor program.
Did Doheny already get the Independence Party ballot line? And did Stafanik get the Conservative Party line? I thought that each of them would be vying for both those party lines (along with the GOP line).
yep Doheny IP and Elise (C)
under the impression it cannot be reversed even if the candidate drops out. not sure now
http://eliseforcongress.com/chairman-long-discusses-conservative-party-endorsement/
the primary dates have changed to June
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20140115/NEWS03/701149769
The IP chose Doheny back in February
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20140221/NEWS03/702209786
And the Conservatives chose Stefanik a few weeks ago
http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20140411/elise-stefanik-gets-conservative-party-line
Needless to say, whichever one (I assume Doheny) loses the GOP primary needs to not be on the November ballot. Doheny lost in 2010 because Doug Hoffman got the Conservative line, Owens won a mere plurality.
This is an excellent pickup opportunity, I’d hate to see it bungled because of this fusion voting stuff, which I’m starting to think is pretty lame.
who are you supporting? got the checkbook out? Signing you up for Elise!
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