Posted on 07/14/2010 1:17:33 PM PDT by Maelstorm
A new poll shows Arizona Sen. John McCain widening his lead over his Republican challenger ahead of next month's GOP primary.
The Rocky Mountain Poll released Wednesday shows McCain leading former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth 64 percent to 19 percent. Political newcomer Jim Deakin had 5 percent.
McCain's margin has widened from a 54 percent to 28 percent lead he held over Hayworth in the same poll in April.
The telephone poll was conducted by the Behavior Research Center between June 30 and July 11 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points. Pollsters surveyed a random sample of 334 registered Arizona voters, including 190 Republicans and 144 independents who said they would vote in the Republican primary.
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I guess Republicans are not much different from the Dhims. They follow what the ‘leaders’ tell them to do. /s
Sounds like the pollsters contacted people who were at home sucking on the Welfare teat,
instead of away from their home phone because they were working that day.
McCain can't be trusted. Most likely he will revert back to his old ways.
Look, time to wake up and face facts. We can't just go around assuming that every poll that shows a result we don't like is bogus. We did that in 2008....and look how that turned out. Everybody assumed Rasmussen was in 0bama's pocket because he was showing 0bama ahead by 5% going into election day. That is, until 0bama won by 5%.
Take home message for any smart person who bothered to pay attention was that we can't just automatically assume that any poll we don't like is made up, cooked, or otherwise fenagled. MSM polls - yes, you can make that assumption. Polls from houses that actually have to try to be right to stay in business? No.
Nor does pointing this out mean that someone supports McCain. Sad to say, but Hayworth is probably not going to win this one, barring some major sea changes in the way the race goes between now and whenever the primary is. I'd love to see Hayworth win, but the scuttlebutt on the ground in AZ that I'm getting from folks is that a lot of people who don't like McCain also genuinely don't like Hayworth, either.
>> why haven’t more conservative pols been conspicuously supportive of Hayworth? <<
They may know about the infomercial and don’t like the tenor of that unfortunate affair.
Geez, what kind of commercials is mccain running in AZ anyway?
What? The McCain is a RINO and I hate McCain strategy isn’t working?
J.D. is a buffoon and the infomercial of him showing how to get free government monies made my stomach turn. There is a reason this loser got drummed out of The House.
Can we get a real non-moron conservative next time? One who pracitces what he preaches. Please?
Well Ari-Freedom, it could be as simple as McCain having $12.5 million to spend and Hayworth only having a half a mil to spend. And then Sarah opened her mouth wide to hawk McCain. On top of that, the Democrats will be voting for McCain too in the primary.
It’s really tough to overcome those dynamics.
If Hayworth had the $12.5 million, and John only had $500k, I guarantee you McCain would have been screaming bloody murder and telling everyone how unfair it was.
John is a fraud. I have to believe the good people of Arizona know it. Still, when you have the Democrats helping to select the Conservative candidate, what can you expect, especially when your own side is doing everything it can to bury you too?
I was glad J. D. entered the race. I give him kudos for having done so.
“Palin has nothing to do with it.”
When other candidates (mostly front runners) she supported won their nomination, many folks on FR claimed it was due to her.
If McCain wins, let’s see how many people here recognize her endorsement for his success the way they did in the other races.
Can’t have it both ways.
Beyond that crap....
I think it was a mistake for her to endorse McCain. Really took away the tough ‘hockey mom’, independent thinker image she was trying to create. It would have been better for her to have not endorsed either in the race, but best for HER to support JD. Her endorsements means zilch to me (nobody’s does) and now I know to look more at the opponents of those she does support.
Is the breakdown on registrations about the same as the breakdown on that sampling?
Ouch. That number seven is a killer.
I was very critical of her when she endorsed him, and all the Sarahbots pelted me with: “She had to do it out of loyalty! She’s just being loyal! What did you expect her to do?” I expected her to be loyal to her convictions, not to a politician.
Nuts! That’s devastating news. Next to his boy-toy, Lindsey Graham, McCain is the biggest RINO in the US Senate.
Thanks alot Sarah!
That’s what the people of AZ say, and who is surprised? They would probably adopt Lovable Lindsey if he moved to AZ too. I would imagine that quite a few of the most uninformed of AZ actually think voting for McPain is “sticking it” to Obama.
You are so right. Really, they can't learn. It takes work to master political matters.
No, the people of AZ don’t know that McPain is a fraud. They think he is honest, courageous, a fighter, a wonderful statesman. Truly they are delusional.
That's it in a nutshell. She lost my support over that. BIG mistake!
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