Posted on 10/24/2014 8:02:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is not a mirage. In the Deep South, Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is surging.
Of all the polls in the field in October in the Peach State, Nunn has tied or enjoyed a slight lead over Republican nominee David Perdu. On Friday morning, a CNN/ORC survey showed Nunn with her widest lead yet – 47 to 44 percent – over her Republican challenger. A third party candidate is drawing another 5 percent of the vote while 4 percent remain undecided. That poll also found incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal trailing his opponent, Democrat and former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter.
Republicans remain justifiably skeptical that Nunn, despite being a strong recruit for Democrats, can pull off a victory in Georgia. While she is capable enough, and the state could shift in her direction to give her a plurality of the vote on Election Day, that race would head to a runoff in January. While CNN/ORC estimates that Nunn would receive a majority of the vote in January, CNN concedes that polling cannot model a hypothetical runoff electorate months after the midterms.
In order for Nunn to win in November (or January, for that matter), she will need to syphon off just enough of the state’s more enthusiastic Republican voters to make up for what pollsters estimate are 2010 levels of excitement among pro-GOP partisans. A recent Insider Advantage poll suggests that is possible – that poll found Nunn securing the support of just under 10 percent of Georgia’s GOP vote while Perdue netted less than 8 percent of Democrats.
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Nunn will lose in Nov or Jan, either way she loses.
The dimwit Carter will lose too.
And because the vote fraud will be better organized and far more extensive than ever before.
The GOP still may win the Senate.
That said, yes, the GOP will underperform miserably and yes, it's because they stand for nothing.
And we have some folks here who support this stand-for-nothing strategy. For example they support stands-for-nothing Cassidy over Maness in LA.
I don’t know if Georgians will vote democrat....but I’m pretty sure the voting machines will!!
A CNN poll? It would be interesting to see the actual number of who were polled and what the base consisted of. Would anyone put it passed CNN to come out with a flawed poll to benefit RATS?
Purdue campaign out with the Obama clip saying if Nunn wins, RATs keep the Senate? They should be hammering the airwaves with that one clip.
Atlanta will vote Democrat. Not the rest of the state.
I would argue one of the reasons she's doing so well is that so many Georgia conservatives keep gushing about what a wonderful "conservative and patriotic" Senator her dear ol' daddy was, and ignoring the fact he was pro-abortion, pro-Obama, pro-illegal, a gun grabber, etc.
Whenever we call them on it, they're reaction is always "Well I NEVER said he was better than a Republican! Just that he was conservative by DEMOCRAT standards! He voted 30-40% conservative which is better than other Democrats!"
Funny, if they're only comparing him to "other Democrats", they sure seem happier when Zig Zag Zell and San Nunn the gun grabber were in power than the "RINOs" elected more recently who CONSISTENTLY vote 80-90% conservative. They NEVER have anything good to say about them, but they fawn over Democrats who voted to put Tom Daschle in power (it's not like Zig Zag Zell replaced a Ted Kennedy type RAT, which would be reason to gloat. Instead, he replaced one of the Senate's MOST conservative members, and when's the last time you heard a Georgia freeper heap praise on Paul Coverdell the way they worship Zig Zag?)
I have to wonder about "conservatives" who are upset that a 40% conservative RAT is replaced with an 85% conservative Republican, and never miss or even mention the 95% conservative Republicans who preceded the 40% conservative RATs.
Is this real, or providing cover because the Dems know they have the fix in place?
Michelle Nunn might be a good person, but any vote for a democrat on a national level is a vote for national destruction. It’s a vote for more obamacare, Fast n Furious, IRS targeting, sodomite unions, more ebola, more pro-muslim policies, etc.
I believe this also. There are a lot of Georgia Pundits of the Jimmy Carter Era who are just wheedling to become relevant once more. So the scheme and tilt everything to try and make it look like MICHELLE MARTIN nee’ NUNN or Jason CARTER has a fighting chance.
She will have trouble getting more votes than Perdue in the Nov 4 election, and if does go to a runoff, she’s done. A MOUSE with DSCC cash leftover from the Grimes pullout, ads from toothless Democrat worker women who’ve been paid, a run-from Obama policies platform, BS “work across the aisle” promise and a refusal to disconnect herself from photos where she was allowed to be in the presence of W and HW. She’s a nothing mouse with NO added value.
Carter? Well, he just looks like he’d be somebody’s b!tch in prison.
She’ll win this one going away. Americans are known for generously forgiving unfortunate statements about outsourcing jobs... made by democrats. Republicans are given no mulligans. And Repubs never seem to learn that.
Unfortunately, increasing numbers of Americans are OK with all that, so long as they get their piece of the pie.
Zell Miller did a commercial to endorse Nunn. He and Sam Nunn go way back, so it’s a favor I guess.
I do live in Georgia an Agree.
Nunn Supports Obama and will vote with Reid.
Nunn wants say where she is for Obama care or not.
Neither is a position on where Perdue stands. Give us Conservative solutions tell us what you Perdue would do.
Nunn/Perdue gonna be real tight. I would say Nunn is leading the earlier at this moment.
Georgia
603,880 65% GOP Turnout
328,047 35% Dem Turnout
For the 2014 Primary election. For me, “win going away” doesn’t seem all that probably given a 2:1 turnout advantage in the primary.
Sure, Democrats largely were uncontested, but it tells me they have to muster up at least 300,000 voters or so. From what I see here, I don’t see a coup like that. Not even.
I myself quite agree with you, but vast numbers of people consider those points “extreme” and pride themselves on being moderate. They think they are superior because they are able to resist becoming “charged up” in defense of such obsolete concepts as freedom and sexually heteronormative (my new favorite word) And in the same way, the US owes everything, more, and even more than what you just thought of to the poor oppressed Blacks for the rotten episode of slavery, so we should cheerfully allow the country to be destroyed in any way this/these vandals can think of.
So they vote Democrat and walk out of the voting booth feeling enlightened.
And I would say that's what the Democrat media and Democrat punditry are trying to make you believe.
She will not make it to 50% +1; it is possible that Perdue may not either because of the 3rd candidate.
However, in what I expect is a runoff in January and the results of other states known and the potential for a Senate control resting here in Georgia, the post election campaigning will be heavily infused on both sides.
Nunn and her campaign have blown their wad trying to win the first round. Perdue has been largely tame with the connection of Nunn to Obama. But there are always enemies, and Nunn's underwear has yet to be exposed. Frankly, she's know nothing inexperienced mouse with nothing to show but a political token job at a charitable foundation where a bottom line doesn't have to be met.
6 percent for the Libertarian in a close election would be very unusual. And even if there is a runoff, the Libertarians won't vote for a Democrat.
I agree....close because of the Libertarian. She will not win a runoff, even if I have to agree with an AJC poll. :o(
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