Posted on 10/19/2014 9:38:22 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
Republican challenger Tom Foley still leads Democratic incumbent Dan Malloy in their Connecticut gubernatorial rematch as voters continue to grumble about the job Malloy has done over the past four years.
Foley now picks up 50% of the vote to Malloy’s 43% in a new statewide telephone survey of Likely Connecticut Voters. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Every little bit helps! And once the RINOs are established, we can move Tea Party candidates in to fight the RINOs.
Win each Battle, THEN win the War. :)
I would get some other poll. I know, it sounds nice to hear, but I remember how so many of Rassy’s 2012 polls were more positive about Romney than reality.
Foley needs a solid 10 point lead to combat Dem fraud in CT.
Last time he nearly won until some votes were “found” in Bridgeport.
“I remember how so many of Rassy’s 2012 polls were more positive about Romney than reality.”
This is true. But Rasmussen has been an outlier poll showing much greater national Obama approval the past 6 months than any other poll.
Every Republican win increases chances real conservatives will have power.
These pollsters know their science, but I can’t help but think this election will establish a new benchmark. The Republicans aren’t giving anyone any reason to vote for them, so I think support within their own party is very soft. It will come down to election day to determine how many were motivated enough to vote. I think that motivation probably sways largely from day to day, depending on what Obama, and the Democrats do, again, because the Republicans aren’t giving anyone any reason to vote for them. I think the strongest turnout will among people that are righteously angry with Obama, but aren’t necessarily supportive of the GOP, and want to punish the administration. But the Democrats will have their busses, and cigarettes handy to fill the polls with their army of disaffected, so the question will be, are there enough angry voters to overcome the Democrat astro turf voters?
I think all of need to remember what happened just before the election in 2012. Hurricane Sandy. The MSM made it look like Obama was a take charge leader and saved the day.
And of course all the photo opps with Christie.
But, don’t they in Connecticut know Malloy passed great, reactive gun control legislation after Sandy Hook?
CT was such a nice place when I grew up there. The state is a wreck; I can’t believe what a mess it’s become, with just a few pockets of sanity and the original beauty remaining. For it to return to the Republican Party would be titantic.
Is Foley a gun grabbing RINO?
I regularly drive through Bridgeport on my way to NYC.I've never actually set foot in the city and I'll bet that you can figure out why.
RCP has Foley ahead by 0.2 pts.
Rasmussen offset by PPP poll that has Malloy +6
Rasmussen is no longer run by Scott Rasmussen. They seem to be skewing a little more Democrat in this cycle. With that said this is a rematch of four years ago where Foley barely lost. I doubt it's Foley +7 there, but it seems to be a close race. Malloy hasn't been too impressive of a governor.
Changed, now they go to far the other way.
No one is winning. The only poll that matters is the actual election.
Yep. He's anti-gun, pro-abortion, pro-cap-and-trade, pro-gay marriage, etc. He supports raising the minimum wage, etc. In most of the country, he'd be too liberal for the Democrat Party. He's the definition of a country club Republican.
Thanks BlueStateRightist.
” CT was such a nice place when I grew up there “
You must have been born there a long time ago , just as I was ( born 1952 but left CT in 1971 ) .
Oh, please, be true.
Foley ain’t great, but he’s got to better than Malloy. Please be true
(we’re CT, we grasp at what ever straws we are given)
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