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West Virginia Senate: Byrd Flying to Reelection With 33 Point Lead
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 11 September 2006 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 09/11/2006 3:42:21 PM PDT by okstate

After garnering support levels in the high 50s for the last several months, Democratic Senator Robert Byrd has pierced the 60% threshold in our polling to now lead Republican John Raese 63% to 30%.

That adds eight points to the spread. Our August survey showed the Senator over-flying his Republican opponent 56% to 31%, a mere twenty-five-point advantage.

Byrd, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, is known for his oratory, unabashed vigor in bringing pork projects to his state, and opposition to the war in Iraq. Should he win, he will be 89 as he begins his new term.

A West Virginia paper noted in a recent editorial that the Republican challenger is still being sighted on the campaign trail, implying that Raese's efforts to replace Byrd, albeit foundering, are not yet dead.

Senator Byrd is viewed favorably by 74%, "very favorably" by 47%. Reese is viewed favorably by 42%, "very favorably" by only 12%; 23% view him "very unfavorably."

Another popular Democrat in the state is Governor Joe Manchin; his job performance wins 79% overall approval, 41% strong approval. The latter figure is close to the proportion, 42%, who "strongly disapprove" of the performance of President Bush.

The frequent discrepancy in how Republican voters and Democratic voters view the ideology of their candidates is quite marked in Byrd's case. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Republicans see the Senator as politically liberal, 21% as moderate. By contrast, 46% of Democrats see him as moderate, only 18% as liberal. And an even greater number of Democrats, 28%, see him as conservative.

Raese is seen as conservative by a plurality of each of these groups, and by 55% of liberals.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006polls; byrd; election2006; elections; elections2006; kkk; poll; polls; raese; rasmussen; rasmussenreports; sheets; westvirginia; wv
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Too bad Shelley Moore Capito didn't join the race or we could've gotten rid of Senator "KKK" Sheets once and for all.
1 posted on 09/11/2006 3:42:22 PM PDT by okstate
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To: okstate

Funny, but 33 points is also Sheets Byrd's functional IQ, now that he is demented. Ever hear this loon talk recently?


2 posted on 09/11/2006 3:44:22 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: okstate

prettyyy prettyyy prettyy


3 posted on 09/11/2006 3:44:32 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
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To: okstate

Why on earth would West Virginia which has become more conservative in recent years and voted for Bush twice vote for this unabashed liberal, Bush basher and looney tune like Byrd? I guess the same could have been said of Strom Thurmond, but who the hell wants an 89 year old Senator who already looks like he's quickly approaching Crypt Keeper status in terms of appearance? I don't know, I just don't get how some people vote and think sometimes, or don't think as is more appropo to this.


4 posted on 09/11/2006 3:45:26 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I can't believe the good people of West Virginia are willing to pay this man over 100k a year to sleep in the chairs of the Senate chamber day in and day out.


5 posted on 09/11/2006 3:45:39 PM PDT by okstate
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To: MikeA

Pork...he delivers the pork.


6 posted on 09/11/2006 3:45:51 PM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
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To: MikeA

West Virginia is a relatively poor state and Byrd brings home the big federal dollars.


7 posted on 09/11/2006 3:47:19 PM PDT by writmeister
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To: okstate

Oh, bugger.


8 posted on 09/11/2006 3:48:32 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: okstate

He's going to get 100% of the Klan vote, like he always does!


9 posted on 09/11/2006 3:48:35 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Proving once again that the people of West Virginia are for sale. Keep that Pork rolling in and you have a lifetime job.

I have to say West Virginia isnt the only state that way. massachusetts is just as bad, and here in Maryland Steny Hoyer is the great porker.


10 posted on 09/11/2006 3:50:46 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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I think we just keep him around because we need something besides our relatives and neighbors to call "As old as the hills." On the other hand, Joe Mancin seems to be a decent guy.


11 posted on 09/11/2006 3:52:12 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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I feel sorry for the West Virginia voters: they seem to "get it" when it comes to Presidential elections, but don't understand how a jerk like Byrd can hurt us.


12 posted on 09/11/2006 3:53:01 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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Too bad Shelley Moore Capito didn't join the race or we could've gotten rid of Senator "KKK" Sheets once and for all.

Yes it is a shame. However, the very least the State of WV should consider, is pulling this old geezer's license, which by the way, I just happen to have a copy.

byrdlicense

13 posted on 09/11/2006 3:53:50 PM PDT by seasoned traditionalist (ALL MUSLIMS ARE NOT TERRORISTS, BUT ALL TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY, ARE MUSLIMS)
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To: okstate

The Klan must be so proud. The former Kleagle or Beagle or whatever the hell those nitwits call themselves gets to stay in the Senate. America loses for another 6 years.


14 posted on 09/11/2006 4:00:45 PM PDT by Astronaut
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"Why on earth would West Virginia which has become more conservative in recent years and voted for Bush twice vote for this unabashed liberal?"

Look at who they elected as their other Senator for your answer.

LLS


15 posted on 09/11/2006 4:01:40 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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You don't know the power of the dark side of the Senate!
16 posted on 09/11/2006 4:02:55 PM PDT by T.Smith
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To: okstate

How big is his lead over the Grim Reaper? I hear it's getting down to the wire.


17 posted on 09/11/2006 4:03:30 PM PDT by Defiant (Under Bush the adults are back in charge, but they are your friend's cool parents.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

What is it about this old fart that keeps him getting re-elected time after time? All the money (read PORK) he brings to his constituents or what???


18 posted on 09/11/2006 4:10:40 PM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: okstate

He bought this state with our tax money, what do you expect his tenants to do?


19 posted on 09/11/2006 4:12:19 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: okstate

What else can you expect from people who wouldn't sodomize a goat unless it was a near relation?


20 posted on 09/11/2006 4:13:20 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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