Senate Race Polls and Links as Democrats consider going Nuclear

http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/2002/polls02.htm ^ | 10-11-02 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

"Work as if everything depends on you; pray as if everything depends on God."

The Iraq debate is over. Democrats who are up for reelection in close Senate races voted for the Iraq resolution with the exception of Paul Wellstone (D-WI). Now with over three weeks left, they are going to hit hard on the economy, social security, negative attack ads, etc.

Anyone who can, send a credit card contribution online to one, some or all of the close Senate races listed here. Please mail a check now if you can't donate online. Even small amounts when combined with other FReepers can make a lot of difference.

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South Dakota: John Thune, current Congressman, (articulate, affable, attractive in an August debate with Johnson) running against Tim Johnson, current Senator.
Latest poll:Thune 43% Johnson 44% Evans (L) 2% Mason Dixon 9/16-19 MOE-3.5%

Link to www.johnthune.com

John Thune for South Dakota
P.O. Box 516
Sioux Falls, SD 57101

New Jersey: Doug Forrester (bio: former assistant state treasurer, now small businessman and university instructor) was running against Senator Robert Torricelli, but (since the NJ Supreme Court fix is in to reprint the ballots) is now running against the Democrat "Mafia" mascot, 78 year old, "have checkbook, will travel", former Senator Lautenberg.
Latest poll: Forrester 44% Lautenberg 44% Newark Star-Ledger of Likely Voters

Link to www.forrester2002.com

Forrester 2002, Inc.
3535 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 400
Hamilton, NJ 08619

Minnesota: Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul, running against Paul Wellstone, current Senator.
Latest poll: Coleman 47% Wellstone 41% Zogby 9/18-19 4.5%

Link to www.colemanforsenate.com

Coleman for U.S. Senate
1410 Energy Park Dr, Ste. 11
St. Paul, MN 55108-9865

New Hampshire: U.S. Representative John Sununu, son of former Governor, defeated current Senator Bob Smith in the September 10th primary and faces current Democrat governor, Jean Shaneen, in the general election for Senator. Sununu has less than two months to knit the party back together for the general election to retain the seat against a tough opponent, who probably would have defeated Smith.
Latest polls: Sununu 44% Shaheen 46% Blevens (L) 1% Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (D) 10/2 4.4%
compare to Sununu 55% Shaheen 34% American Research Group 9/30-10/2 4%
Sununu 44% Shaheen 47% Univ. of NH Oct. 4%

Link to www.johnsununu.org

Team Sununu
PO Box 500
Rye, NH 03870

Missouri: Jim Talent, former Congressman from St. Louis, against current Senator Jean Carnahan (who was appointed when her dead husband narrowly "won" in 2000 election over John Ashcroft). If Talent wins he may be allowed to take the seat immediately. .
Latest poll: Talent 48% Carnahan 48% Survey U.S.A. 10/5-6 4.2%

Link to www.talentforsenate.com

Jim Talent for Senate
9433 Olive Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63132

Arkansas: Senator Tim Hutchinson challenged strongly by state attorney general Mark Pryor. Sen. Hutchinson, a former Baptist minister, is in trouble for reelection because of his divorce and remarriage after winning the Senate seat in 1996 on a platform of family values. He won his primary by 70% against another Christian conservative so the voters may be starting to forgive him. Without help, this is our most likely loss.
Latest poll before Democrats went to Baghdad: Hutchinson 40% Pryor 50% Arkansas New Bureau 9/16-20 4.5%

Link to www.tim2002.com

Hutchinson for Senate
PO Box 998
Rogers, AR 72756

Texas: State Attorney General John Cornyn is running close in the polls to Democrat Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas. Current Senator Phil Graham is retiring.
Last reported poll done by Democrats: Cornyn 35% Kirk 39% Fairbanks Maslin Maullin & Assoc. (D) 9/22-24 3.6% compare to
Cornyn 56% Kirk 30% NBC5 9/30-10/6 4.1%

Link to www.johncornyn.com

John Cornyn for Senate, Inc.
P.O. Box 13026
Austin, Texas 78711

b>Colorado: Current Senator, Wayne Allard, a veterinarian, is facing stiff competition from slick former U.S. Attorney and environmentalist, Tom Strickland. The Libertarian candidate, businessman Rick Stanley, may draw away enough votes from Allard to cause a loss.
Last reported poll: Allard 42% Strickland 42% Zogby 9/17-18 4.5%

Link to www.allardforsenate.com

US Senator Wayne Allard
300 W. Plaza Drive #100
Littleton, CO 80129

Georgia: U.S. Representative Saxby Chambliss against current Senator Max Cleland.
Latest polls: Chambliss 42% Cleland 51% Mitchell Research 9/26-10/1 MOE 4%
Chambliss 41% Cleland 45% Public Opinion Strategies (R) 9/30-10/1 MOE 3%

Link to www.saxby.org

Chambliss for Senate, Inc.
P.O. Box 12469
Atlanta, GA 30355

Iowa: U.S. Representative Greg Ganske is challenging current Senator Tom Harkin.
Ganske has gained ground since the last poll and Harkin lost a point, possibly due to the spying scandal and the Iraq debate: Ganske 44% Harkin 53% Survey Iowa 13 4.1%
Harkin must be a bit unnerved as he voted for the Iraq resolution.

Link to www.ganskeforsenate.org

Ganske for Senate
1200 Grand Ave.
West Des Moines, IA 50265

West Virginia: Jay versus Jay. Jay Wolfe is trying to unseat current Senator Jay Rockefeller, using the same stealth grassroots tactics that won the state for George W. Bush. This one is under the radar, so you won't see any polls.

Link to www.jaywolfe.net

Friends of Jay Wolfe
P.O. Box 364
Salem, WV 26426

[ArneFufkin]

I have a very unscientific poll of my Aunt Donna in Iowa Falls, who says "oooh, Harkin's made folks mad here". The dirty political stuff doesn't play there, and Harkin handled it really arrogantly. The guy gives his people big wads of Farm bill cash every year, then votes against every social and fiscal priority they harbor. The cash seems to win, but it's Ganske over Harkin in my upset special.

[ArneFufkin]

I'm a bit disappointed that Bush hasn't named a Justice Department field team to monitor voting integrity in the usual places.

Newark. St. Louis. Atlanta. Dade/Broward/Palm Beach. Houston. New Orleans. All the usual cesspools. They're gonna steal us blind this year, it's all on the line as far as they're concerned. They need Jean, Frank and Max badly, and they'll do anything to beat Jeb.

I hope those Florida morons have been in intensive training to master the skill of touching a video screen.

[maica]

Be funny if Bush pulls off a coup in Iraq now without firing a shot. At least I am praying for such a miracle.

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It is certainly possible, and I am praying for the same thing! The Berlin wall "fell"; the Soviet Union "broke up"; Ceaucescu "died".

History records these events as if Reagan and Thatcher had nothing to do with them.

President Bush will get little attribution, but he is orchestrating the disappearance of Saddam Hussein's control of Iraq.

[RJayneJ]

I will try to keep up with what is going on till the election. I like the way you put that report together. It's just enough information to give you a snapshot of where things stand without weighting it down with more information than you need to see what's going on at a glance.

[ffrancone]

Do we want Democrat Stepford wives to rule the U.S. Supreme Court like they do the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court?

Emphatically No. That's why all conservatives need to actively helping the Republicans Take Back the Senate. Any of us who doesn't is in no position to WHINE up on Free Republic in 2003 about the Supreme Court or how Bush has compromised with Dems. The reason Bush compromises with Dems is that the Dems have power. Take it away in three weeks.

TakeBackCongress.org

[blackie]

Let's Roll !!

Molon Labe !!

[MHT]

I got a call this afternoon from a woman from NARAL with a foreign accent asking me to vote for Jean Carnahan. I yelled at her that Mrs. Carnahan is the lousiest senator in the chamber and she didn't serve to be there to begin with. The girl was shocked. In the meantime, I felt better.

This poll info is a little disturbing--looks like we could lose 4 Republican seats--AR, NH, TX, and CO-- and I thought there were more recent polls showing improvement for Hutchinson as well as Sununu leading strong and TX looking very good.

Given the Senate vote and the lateness of the date, when will the next round of polls come out?

[cubreporter]

Roger! :)

[patriciaruth]

We won't lose TX. CO and NH are indeed possible losses and need work and money till the very last to pull them out. Arkansas is a probable loss, but there is hope there, too.

[patriciaruth]

Would you have heard about such an effort to decrease voter fraud if it were in place? Would the media have reported it?

I did hear that there was going to be some monitoring of voting at Indian reservations in South Dakota and in St. Louis, Missouri, because of irregularities in the last election.

[patriciaruth]

Here's a website with a lot of up to date information about all the Senate races.

Link to www.centerforpolitics.org

[Intolerant in NJ]

Now will Democrats in New Jersey vote for a senile Democrat over a very articulate Republican with all his marbles, plus some extra gems? Will they be able to notice the difference?...looks like the 'pubs for a change are running a feisty campaign in NJ - haven't seen it myself, but Fox News report (Brit Hume) the other night highlighted an ad ridiculing the 'rats Torricelli/Lautenberg switcheroo - kid in classroom complains to teacher that he doesn't know the answers to the test, asks if he can have Lautenberg come and take the test for him the way Torricelli did - this issue (which one poll showed Jersey voters finding unfair by a 54-40% margin) and Forrester's improving campaign skills should be plenty to give the election to the Repubs, but since I don't think most NJ voters have all their marbles (present company excluded of course), I wouldn't want to take any bets.....