Posted on 10/29/2014 1:55:23 PM PDT by Din Maker
In the sprint to next Tuesday's US midterm elections, new polls show some besieged Democrats holding their own, complicating the narrative that Republicans are on track to seize the Senate majority.
Alaska in particular bears good news for President Barack Obama's party: two recent surveys show incumbent Senator Mark Begich with a substantial lead, the first polls in a month to put him ahead of Republican challenger Dan Sullivan. Alaska-based Republican-leaning firm Hellenthal and Associates released a poll Friday putting Begich ahead by 10 points. Late Monday, Ivan Moore Research group released an October 24-26 poll on Facebook showing Begich with 48.3 percent and Sullivan 41.6 percent.
The results were significant enough for The New York Times to shift Alaska from likely Republican into the "toss-up" column, joining Georgia, Iowa and Kansas.
In Iowa, a Loras College poll of 1,121 registered voters put Democrat Bruce Braley up by one point against conservative Joni Ernst, countering a recent trend showing Ernst ahead in their tight race. A YouGov poll put the pair even at 44 percent.
In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Mark Pryor has narrowed the gap to two points against Republican Tom Cotton, 43-45 percent, according to an NBC News/Marist Poll.
Three Democratic seats -- in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia -- will almost certainly flip Republican.
Top election forecast models show Democratic incumbents trailing in Arkansas, Colorado and Louisiana, and barely holding on in North Carolina and New Hampshire.
Republicans could face trouble in traditionally red states Georgia, Kansas and Kentucky, where Democrats -- and in the case of Kansas, an independent -- are hoping to pick off one or two seats.
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You got it, the Dems are in trouble and this looks very good for the GOP.
Heck even the New York Slimes gives Republicans a 66% chance today. Just a swag but I think the chances are over 80%, a lot of the better polls say things are swaying the GOP’s way. But, I been disappointed before.
And don’t forget the “glitch” making voting machines cast every single vote for the RAT.
“Time’s up.”
Well, it’s close.
“Someday - God Willing - we’ll put the little democrat sh*ts in jail...”
No, then the taxpayers will have to pay their room and board and health care. Better to just hang them and be done with them.
It’s often difficult either to anticipate all the methods of cheating or to prevent them.
The government is almost infinitely corrupt and dishonest.
We’ve alrady witnessed the fixing of voting machines in Illinois, and I’m sure that’s just the very tip of the iceberg.
AP propaganda. Whatever. In less than a week, they won’t be able to spin anymore.
“Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that all is well is why we’re in the mess we’re in now.”
Except this election isn’t a mess, no matter how much concern trolls like you whine about it.
BTW...Sand would be an improvement over where you have your head stuck now.
Bite me punk!
I’ll bet you got your a$$ beat regularly in school, too bad I wasn’t there.
You’re the one who started this conversation with your snippy comments and then progressed to name calling (troll, whiner) and telling me that I had my head up my ass. I’m NOT going to sit here and let you try to bully me. I read your “About Page”. You have more issues than a magazine rack. You’re homophobic and definitely have an anger problem caused from small penis syndrome or something. You need professional help.
You won’t last long here.
Wrong.
*I* am homophobic, and *I* have an anger problem caused from small penis syndrome, and *I* need professional help.
I'll thank you to correctly identify the creepy freaks around here, thank you very much.
If you say anything to Dem-Masker he will whine because you don’t like queers.
I don’t see why not; you’ve been here 9 years.
Come out the closet, will you? We're supposed to believe that is comment a conservative Christian grandpa from Texas would make?
Complaining about homophobia is the surest sign one is a liberal.
All this dissent you're stirring up against Republican candidates is really because a Democrat. That is my guess.
How progressive and liberal of him.
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