Posted on 05/22/2006 1:12:21 PM PDT by waterloofan
May 22, 2006--Senator Bill Nelson (D) from Florida has hit the 60% level of support in his bid for re-election. The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll shows Nelson leading likely GOP challenger Katherine Harris (R) by twenty-seven percentage points, 60% to 33%.
This Senate seat was once considered a a pick-up opportunity for the GOP. However, as the Harris campaign imploded earlier this year, Florida Republicans were unable to recruit a top-tier candidate to challenge Harris in the primary. As a result, Nelson is now one of the nation's safest incumbents.
Senator Nelson is viewed favorably by 66% of the state's voters and unfavorably by just 23%.
For Harris, the numbers are just 42% favorable and 50% unfavorable. This includes 41% who have a very unfavorable opinion of their former Secretary of State.
Harris doesn't need the RNC "resources."
All she needs is strong statements by the RNC supporting her against the socialist Nelson, not knife-in-the-back comments made by RNC "officials" too scared to go on the record.
and in the process lose 3-4 other GOP seats that could have been won with a few more ad buys?
What other seats? My guess is that conservatives will continue to support House candidates. The RNC needs to put their resources behind conservatives running for Senate seats. But that's a laugh because the RNC only supports RINO hacks like Lincoln Chafee over Laffey in RI.
I've been turned off by the wholesale Freepdom denial of polls. Any one poll is suspect. Look at a dozen polls for some consistent message and more often than not, you get a meaningful measure of the political landscape.
Many Freepers are too young to recall the Clinton Impeachment. Poll after poll showed very low support for removing Clinton from office. Freepdom insisted all the polls were wrong. Of course, it was the Freepers who were wrong.
Clarity is often scarce on FR, I admit.
what does that tell you about the Florida voters?
Let her spend that $10 million she pledged, then didn't pledge, whatever. Don;t throw good money down the toilet by supporting Harris. She thinks she is hot stuff - let her perform.
You don't know jack about FLA politics
I think the problem here is Harris herself. She over estimated her value. She had a safe seat in the house and just got greedy.
Now she has no house and no senate.
It is no pleasure to be one of the 33%.
She had better start defining herself as no rino if she has even a tiny prayer to fight this out.
She co-sponsored an illegal amnesty bill of her very own in Congress.
I agree, this is a Republican Party fiasco. You have my sympathies: Barbara Boxer AND DiFi? Can there be anything worse? :0)
That would work if the Devil Rays had fans.
The RNC supported Chafee in RI because Laffey would have gone down in flames in the general election. Like it or not, ultra-liberal Rhode Island is not going to elect a solid conservative. A RINO from Rhode Island is the best the GOP is going to get.
iy wesent dat, ahhnold iz da strongestest wepublican canadate in duh hisdory of kalifornya - you arg dust a gay gurl-ie mun.
And he's not running. So people should stop belly-aching about Harris.
What's the ratio of people who get their news in 30 second sound-bites from the evening news (on alphabet channels),or lib newspapers vs. Fox/Internet? If I was a betting man, I'd say 5-1, at least.
The MSM is still all powerful.
Opps - voted to continue *NO* drilling off the coast. types to fast and now I'm probnably going to get two dozen replies correcting me before this posts!
That only applied to FL agriculture workers, which I disagree with her on.
You failed to look at her overall immigration record, which includes some good anti-illegal legislation.
50% on immigration is much better than the 0% you'll get from Nelson.
Schumer and Clinton?
I'd say they are still 'very powerful,' but not 'all powerful.' They went full throttle against dubya and the GOP in 2004 and while Kerry almost won, on balance the GOP did very well and better than some folks expected.
So I should donate to Nelson instead?
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