Posted on 09/09/2014 6:10:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
This election year, Lindsey Graham has the weakest foothold of all Republican incumbents in the U.S. Senate, according to results of a poll released on Sept. 7. The 2014 “Battleground Tracker,” conducted by YouGov.com on behalf of the New York Times and CBS News, finds the South Carolina senator to have confirmed support from only 37 percent of voters in the state. Another five percent say they are currently leaning toward the incumbent, but can’t confirm their votes for Graham.
His 37-percent take is not only lowest of all 13 Republican senators up for re-election this year, who average 53.5 percent in support; it also marks a recent drop for Graham, as well. A July study found 45 percent of likely voters to support the incumbent. Those former supporters apparently changed status to undecided, a number that’s grown from eight percent in July’s poll to 19 for September.
“It clearly shows that Graham is very weak,” said Lachlan McIntosh, campaign manager for state Sen. Brad Hutto, who is Graham’s Democratic opponent in 2014. “Hutto can win with the normal Democratic coalition in South Carolina.”
Hutto, who’s represented the Orangeburg region in state senate since 1996, currently has support from 28 percent of likely voters, with another one percent leaning his way. He leads Graham most in voters under the age of 45, however, which is the same age group with the highest portion of undecided respondents (31 percent). The incumbent senator only has majority support from voters who self-identify as conservatives and who are of ages 65 and older.
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Not electing left wing democrats needs to happen in EVERY election.
As often stated, if you can’t get a more conservative candidate in the primary, how do you expect to get one elected in the general election?
You think your mission is to defeat “liberal” republicans by electing leftist democrats. Our country is already on the brink from that “strategy”.
Just one opinion.
The only alternatives to voting GOP:
1) Vote Democrat——Perfectly insane if you ask me.
2) Vote Third Party-—effectively voting Democrat.
3) Not voting-—Also effectively voting Democrat.
Those are your choices pure and simple. I don’t always like the GOP nominee but I have never entertained the thought of voting Democrat.
Do you have the candidate to replace Scott Brown in NH? Probably he was the “best” they can do because he has name recognition.
Doesn’t mean I like Scott Brown much at all, or Lindsey Graham half the time, but we have a real nation foundering here and we need republican senators. Which by the way will only accomplish very little anyway.
If I were in NH I would be checking out the independents, if I were in MA and hadn’t left yet I would be squarely behind independent Scott Lively. I think that is his name.
Well, one out of three isn’t bad. A vote for a third party is a vote for a third party, and staying home is staying home.
I have a better idea. Try to earn my vote. Otherwise you’ll always live up to your screen name.
Sorry, your choices aren’t always perfect. You need to work with what is available to you.
Any conservative who votes Third Party is denying a vote to GOP candidate who needs it to defeat the Dem. The Dems WANT you to vote Third Party, it helps their candidates.
Even better the Dems would prefer you not to vote at all.
The GOP candidate isn’t always perfect. But it is up to the voters to select the superior candidate being presented who has a chance of winning.
Can anyone around here kindly offer any example of the Dem candidate being superior to the GOP candidate in any major race?
Party affiliation is meaningless. I would not vote for a lefty, especially one that condemns conservatives like McConnell has done.
The GOPe is doing everything it can not to give the primary voters that chance.
It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that a US Senator with a lifetime cumulative ACU rating of 90.16% is a lefty. Patently absurd.
Party affiliation is NOT meaningless. Far from it.
You have no problem in identifying the imperfection of various GOP candidates.
But please kindly identify as much as one Democrat who should be elected this year to public office.
You won’t ever get a more conservative GOP by electing liberal republicans. It’s about the long game, not one election.
/johnny
I don’t even bother looking at D candidates, they are ALL worthless. A few R’s are worth a vote but not all of them.
There IS a difference. I cannot think of a single Republican who voted for Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the Porkulus, or Cap and Trade.
think harder
ObamaCare would not have come to the Senate floor for a vote without a Republican voting to send it there.
As I recall the Dems had a super majority filibuster-proof senate when it passed Obamacare. Not one Republican US Senator or House member voted for it.
Roberts is probably going to lose. And don’t forget Cochran in MS. His primary runoff shananigans might backfire.
Yes I appreciate your feelings on this but the game will be over if you don’t accept some imperfect republican votes. We are projected to LOSE the senate in 2016 so the loss of more GOP seats could make that catastrophic.
Also, I won’t count on it but a GOP senate could stop the Supreme Court from turning leftist for a generation.
There is more than one long game so please give this a thought. LG disappoints me a lot but at this point it’s him or an Obama clone. Just my opinion.
I don’t accpet liberal republicans or the false time pressure sales technique they use. I will continue to work to destroy liberal republicans in the primary or in the general.
/johnny
Imperfect only in the sense that they are opposed to everything conservative.
/johnny
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