Posted on 10/07/2014 2:49:06 PM PDT by WKB
A new poll shows Democratic challenger Travis Childers gaining on Sen. Thad Cochran less than a month before the Nov. 4 general election.
The New York Times/CBS/YouGov poll taken Sept. 20 through Oct. 1 shows Cochran leading 41 percent to 30 percent. A similar poll taken Aug. 18 through Sept. 2 had Cochran with a 40 percent to 25 percent advantage.
According to the New York Times The Upshot:
The YouGov online surveys are being used to supplement, not replace, the Times’s traditional telephone polls. The Times/CBS News poll uses a different methodology for its political and social surveys; they are conducted using random digit dialing probability sampling. The YouGov data is used for The Upshot election forecasting model in key congressional races and Senate battleground states.
In each state and district, respondents were selected to match the demographics of registered voters. In 66 competitive House districts and the 15 smallest states with Senate elections this year, YouGov interviewed a disproportionate numbers of voters to increase the sample size for these races.
Public polling has shown Cochran stuck below 50 percent since the nasty Republican primary against Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, which is still being contested in the Mississippi Supreme Court, Childers spokeswoman Lindsey White wrote in a release about the poll results
Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2014/10/06/5840841_poll-shows-childers-gaining-on.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1#storylink=cpy
lol! thank for the humor.
Poll data if anyone is interested in the breakdowns.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/09/07/battleground-tracker-2014-mississippi/#wave3sen
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vacancies-in-the-united-states-senate.aspx
The Governor makes an interim appoinyment AND a special election is then held within 100 days of when governor receives official notice of vacancy, unless vacancy occurs in the year of a general state or congressional election, in which case the vacancy is filled in that election.
So the imterim appointee would serve from 3 up to 10 months (Jan to the Nov election).
You comment is symptomatic of a weird thin skin that some conservatives develop. It is unattractive to run crying at every perceived (or misperceived in this case) insult. For the record, I wasn't making that comparison, read it again. I was comparing voting for a lame GOPe candidate to bombing japan and torturing terrorists. Something distasteful you have to do in order to win.
We’ve been called KKKlukkers, teabaggers, teabillies, inbred, etc.
Gosh, I can’t imagine why we’re a little thin skinned now.
Political debate kind of ceases when you call your fiscally conservative opponent a racist who wants to starve little black babies.
We’re a little suspicious as you can imagine.
And nuking your base in a primary isn’t a great way to win the general election. Those ‘teabillies’ will have to be willing to vote for your guy. When it’s cold and dreary and gets dark before we get home from work.
And no, I can’t vote for a man who is living with a woman, openly, who is not his wife.
Even Bill Clinton didn’t do that.
Voting GOPe vs. democrat is like picking sides in an Islamic war. Neither side are your allies. And both will kill you with amazing ease and lack of conscience as they do so.
Better to just let them fight it out.
If the GOPe wanted my vote, in the most conservative state in the country, perhaps they should have run someone other than an open adulterer.
The write in votes do not count in Mississippi but they bare aware of write ins and if there are enough it will make a statement. I will not vote for a democrat and I will not vote for cochran, I’m writing in Chris McDaniel.
The GOP has been going after Conservatives for a long time and we don’t stand up to them and they keep getting more aggressive until Mississippi and they now don’t hesitate to violate the law. We should have stood against Romney for his campaign against Newt but we didn’t want to re-elect obama. We could have accomplished “something” in 2012 and possibly not have the problems we’re having today. In Mississippi Joe Nosef needs to go and nationally reince prince needs to go. The Republican party needs to do more than say their Conservative, they need to be Conservative.
If Thad retired before his term was half over the Governor would appoint a replacement who would have to stand for election for the balance of the term at either a special or the next election cycle if he went over half the time the replacement may be appointed for the balance. If Thad gets re-elected I wouldn’t be surprised to see him retire within a month.
How can Nosef be removed anyway?
That’s just for the senate race. Vote GOP for the rest of the ballot
Great, so let's work to get Ted Cruz elected president. But that's going to be a pyrrhic victory of Harry Reid is still majority leader. We need every senate seat we can. If we lose Missouri or Kansas, those seats will be in Democrat hands the entirety of the next president's first term.
See: Larry Klayman, deport Obama document.
When is the Supreme Court going to decide on the primary-after the election?
I agree.
I don’t have an issue with the means when it comes to Hiroshima or waterboarding.
In war, they are legitimate means.
If the gop wants to cheat, lie and steal to win elections, they are no better and no different than dems. A guy who will cheat to get your vote will steal to get your money.
No, I expect better from the gop, which means I see Cochran as worse than the dem.
You have no right to complain about dem cheating tactics if you will support a gop cheater.
I hate cheaters and liars and thieves.
I hate dems BECAUSE they are cheaters and liars and thieves.
I don’t hate cheaters and liars and thieves just because they are dems.
So - if the gop chooses to lie, cheat and steal - their gopness does not deflect my hate - I strive to not be a hypocrite.
This is a war, those who don’t realize it are going to lose. I’m not saying cheat, I’m saying suck it up and don’t let a democrat win.
The cheating has already been done by the gop. The dem is a better person for the job, rather than the cheating lying immoral scumbag rino.
“How can Nosef be removed anyway?”
He would probably have to be pressured to resign by the State Republican Executive Committee, they need to see the damage he’s done and that he cannot unify the party. One way to show them would be for county republican clubs and executive committees to censure him and ask them to remove him.
“Great, so let’s work to get Ted Cruz elected president.”
Working towards that. Republicans nreed to control the Senate, I have sucked it and voted for and supported many winners of Republican primaries and nomination winners in my life but a line was crossede in Mississippi and I will not vote for or support Cochran. The MississiSenate vote appears to belong to haley barbour anyway.
In fact, sometimes I even mock you outright.
But on the above, that you wrote, I do not disagree with a single thing.
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