Rasmussen: McCain Holds Strong Lead in Arizona Primary (but his numbers are similar to Specter's)

Rasmussen / NewsMax ^ | 2010-05-19 | Wire Reports

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain continues to lead Arizona’s hotly contested Republican Senate primary contest, with challenger J.D. Hayworth trailing him by 12 points.

McCain has 52 percent of the vote, compared with Hayworth’s 40 percent, according to the new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters in Arizona. Two percent prefer some other candidate, and 6 percent are undecided.

Despite the lead, Rasmussen notes that any incumbent who earns less than 50 percent support is considered potentially vulnerable, and McCain has been hovering around that mark all year.

[rabscuttle385]

"Any incumbent who earns less 50% support is considered potentially vulnerable and McCain has been hovering around that mark all year. The 2008 Republican Presidential nominee cannot be comforted by the fact that his level of support in early primary polling is similar to the numbers for Arlen Specter. Specter, defeated by Joe Sestak, led in just about all early polling but could never get much above the 50% level of support. That provided Joe Sestak with a chance to defeat the 30-year veteran of the Senate yesterday."

[rabscuttle385]

Any incumbent who earns less 50% support is considered potentially vulnerable and McCain has been hovering around that mark all year. The 2008 Republican Presidential nominee cannot be comforted by the fact that his level of support in early primary polling is similar to the numbers for Arlen Specter.

And we all know what happened to ol' Snarlin' Arlen!

[AuntB]

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[Man50D]

Specter now has plenty of time to campaign for McAmnesty.

[greyfoxx39]

Specter now has plenty of time to campaign for McAmnesty.

From your keyboard to God's ear! I'd love to see snarlin' Arlen appearing with mean McCain!

[Will88]

Don’t tell me Arizonans are falling for Juan’s 1000% phony get tough on border enforcement, election year charade.

[Falcon28]

If McCain stays around 50% or under - I think JD is in good shape.

JD HAYWORTH

[WOSG]

Blame the voters:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
— Author Unknown

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’d like to find the author of that and buy him a beer. Every word of it is the truth.

Obama and McQueeg aren’t the problem. The American people are the problem.

[Recovering_Democrat]

C’mon, Arizona. Whassup?????

[Southnsoul]

AMEN!!

[bwc2221]

There’s still plenty of time. The best thing that could happen for J.D. is if Mega Mac hits the campaign trail with dear old dad.

McCain was on Greta last night and sounded like Jeff Sessions (without the southern drawl).

[LADY J]

I listened to Greta interviewing McCain. He was telling her of all the horror stories that the people of Arizona are suffering under the Mexican invasion.

He sounded so sincere, concerned & was demanding troups on the border & listing all the things that need to be done.

Oddly enough, he's been Arizona's senator for about 30 years, in favor of amnesty and now - he acts like he just got elected - never knew about any of this & NOW he wants to do something about it.

Does this two-faced faker think the people are stupid, deaf, dumb & blind??

He needs to be kicked out & replaced by a representative that will truly care about the people of Arizona.

Past experience shows that as soon as he would be re-elected, he would be his same old back-stabbing self again!!

If the people of Arizona vote for him again, then we can only assume that they like the conditions that they are suffering.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

JD needs to hang in there. It is still over three months until the election.

Need to get the message out to Arizonans that McCain will push Amnesty and Open Borders once re-elected.

[a real Sheila]

PLEASE GET RID OF THIS RINO!

[McGavin999]

He needs money. If the tea party wants to get rid of RINOs they need to do what they can to get JD enough money to get his ads out. He’s fighting a huge war chest left over from McCain’s presidential run. BTW, anyone who thinks McCain didn’t throw that election to Obama needs to ask themselves why he had $20 million left over.

[Will88]

I listened to Greta interviewing McCain. He was telling her of all the horror stories that the people of Arizona are suffering under the Mexican invasion.

It seems Juan is constantly on Fox, and constantly spewing his very recently discovered concern for border security and the safety of Arizona citizens. And it seems no one ever challenges him, and calls him on his lies and election year hypocrisy and posturing.

Did Greta ever challenge him on his hypocrisy?

[Tex-Con-Man]

[raybbr]

Oddly enough, he's been Arizona's senator for about 30 years, in favor of amnesty and now - he acts like he just got elected - never knew about any of this & NOW he wants to do something about it.

He still is in favor of amnesty. He just doesn't like all the bad publicity the benefactors of that amnesty are creating.

[Theodore R.]

McPain is proof of the madness of Republican primary voters.