Senate Polls Move Back to 50-50

Pundit Press ^ | 11/1/2010 | Thomas Ferdousi

[therightliveswithus]

The compilation of all of the national Senate polls is showing a 50-50 tie again. The average showed this several weeks ago but saw a small bump in Democratic polling. Today, the split is again alive and well and Republicans would be just one seat away from a true majority.

Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may change parties or perhaps Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, who should expect a tough election year in 2012. In any case, the Democrats would see what was once a supermajority which could ram down unpopular bills by going through the filibuster completely disappear.

[therightliveswithus]

Awesome!!!!! Just one more for a majority!

[cableguymn]

It’s going to take more than one. Yes, one more will get you control of the senate. But there is plenty of Rinos to stab the conservatives in the back.

[cripplecreek]

At this point I don’t think the polls are really moving all that much. More likely poll movement simply reflects the fact that different people are being polled.

[scooby321]

http://www.intrade.com/ 47.6%

[Huck]

Can you imagine how much of an idiot you have to be to be undecided at this point?

[deport]

Rasmussen has the following for today so the toss ups are important. He has the WV Dem up by 4:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

The Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Balance of Power summary shows Democrats likely to end up with 48 seats and Republicans with 45. Seven Senate races remain Toss-Ups (California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia).

[cripplecreek]

LOL no kidding.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Great, but still not quite good enough.

50-50 means Smokin’ Joe is still the tie-breaker, meaning the Dems retain control. Even if we get 51 or 52, there’s still the concern that one or both of the Maine twins might jump ship if she gets a good enough offer from the Dems.

[rightistight]

Wow. And they have Angle at over 67%! Reid’s going to need a stiff drink tomorrow night.

[GnuHere]

I pretty much count the Maine-iacs as Dims.

[updatedscreenname]

Scott Brown put the brakes on the dem Senate.

Once the Dems loose the house they are stuck. The hearings will begin on the thousands of issues the dems rammed through.
Hopefully some of them will be caught in the trap of either
pleading the 5th, or caught like Scooter. It will be interesting to see who rolls over on whom.

The Senate wins this year are more of a backdrop to those up for election in 2012. One would think that they would be singing a more centrist tune.

[RummyChick]

What we need is the majority. It will take several elections to boot RINOS who stab us in the back.

[Psalm 144]

I don’t see Lieberman switching parties, but I do see him running with Republicans on national security, and most economic issues, few if any social issues. But I do NOT see him changing to an ‘R’.

More likely, coming back into the wreckage of the Democrat party in January, 2013, and asking if they are ready yet for adult supervision.

[delapaz]

it’s more important to replace RINO’s with conservatives than gain a majority. Otherwise we have the 1994 issue of having a majority but pissing it away.

[Psalm 144]

What we need is the majority. It will take several elections to boot RINOS who stab us in the back.

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Absolutely. Tuesday is the first mile marker in a marathon.

[Psalm 144]

it’s more important to replace RINO’s with conservatives than gain a majority. Otherwise we have the 1994 issue of having a majority but pissing it away.

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This time we will most likely have conservative leadership though. Not “compassionate-conservative”.

And the country has now had several reality checks.

[ken5050]

Several good points on NRO today. If the Gallop generic poll is correct..showing the GOP up +15 or more, depending on which turnout model you assume, there is NO way that the Senate doesn’t flip..I tend to agree with this..

[Notary Sojac]

I can't see Nelson or Lieberman switching parties. They are both, at their core, liberals: liberals who have intermittent flashes of common sense.

As liberals they would be faced by strong conservative GOP challengers (particularly Nelson) the very next primary.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Don't worry, those RINO’s are getting pretty nervous these days. They see their kind like Christ, MurkCOWski, etc, going down in flames. They know good and well they either listen to their voting public or find another line of work.

[going hot]

Can you imagine how much of an idiot you have to be to be undecided at this point?

probably just as much as some who would prefer the dem rather than vote for a rino to replace the dem.