Rasmussen’s polling operation was bought by a Soros’ owned co. His polling has gone to hell in a hand-basket ever since.
I would suggest that at least forty percent of the McDaniel primary voters won’t vote in November, or will vote Democrat. I’d even go out on the limb and suggest that forty percent of the Cochan voters either won’t vote (they were primary-Democrats-voting-Republican) or just disenchanted Republicans looking at the scheme that developed (thus refusing to vote again for Cochan).
What this leads to? Wicker will get more votes than he’d ever anticipated and it’ll turn into a fairly close race.
So, my feeling is that it’s all scripted. You could tell that Cochan had run out of steam and mental alertness back in 2009. The Republican Party of Mississippi should have gone out and found their best replacement and pursued that guy/gal as a replacement. They didn’t do it....pursuing the alternate strategy of getting the lobbyists all in a room and agreeing on Wicker as the best lobbyist-Senator, and scripted this whole election to get Wicker easily into the Senator’s chair.
Presently, even if Cochan were to accidentally win....he’ll just announce his retirement in the fall of 2015, and have the governor replace him. Pretty nifty system in Mississippi.....not any real Republican or Democratic Party stuff....just lobbyists working on a guy to represent them and rig up the election to look real but fake.