Posted on 07/27/2010 8:54:30 AM PDT by tlb
With the GOP primary just a month away, U.S. Sen. John McCain is pulling further away from rival J.D. Hayworth, and Rasmussen Reports is no longer listing the incumbent senator as vulnerable to an upset from his conservative challenger.
A Rasmussen Reports poll released on July 26 showed McCain with a 54-34 lead over Hayworth. Rasmussen conducted the automated push-button telephone poll of 595 likely Republican primary voters on July 21.
Seven percent of respondents said they would vote for another candiate, and 6 percent said they were unsure who they would cast their ballots for in the Aug. 24 primary.
McCain’s leads have varied wildly depending on the poll, with Rasmussen giving him an 11-percent lead in January and the Behavior Research Center showing him up by a whopping 45 points in mid-July. But every poll shows the four-term senator pulling away from his conservative challenger.
While many of Rasmussen’s previous polls described McCain as potentially vulnerable because his support consistently hovered around 50 percent, usually a bad sign for an incumbent. Rasmussen noted that McCain’s approval numbers were similar to those of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who lost in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary.
But unlike Specter’s challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Rasmussen said Hayworth is not gaining any ground on his opponent.
“That comparison no longer works,” Rasmussen wrote of the Hayworth-Specter comparison. “In the Arizona match-up, Hayworth is falling further behind in the final month before the primary.”
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Don’t blame the voters of AZ and put accountability where it belongs - it takes the steam out of those who want a pound of flesh from Palin.
How many years did the voters have to get rid of McCain and they never did. That truth is over the heads of some.
FUAZ
The ONLY poll that counts is on 2 November.
Since the mid-1800s to early 1900s, generations of American children have attended socialist-modeled, socialist-funded, government owned and run, **compulsory**, K-12 schools! Simply by attending children learn that the government has **enormous** police power to force their neighbors to pay for, and to compel parents to use, a socialist government owned and run service.
Well?...If government can threaten parents and neighbors with police, courts, and even imprisonment, to both use and to pay for government owned socialist schools, why not a thousand other socialist wants and needs?
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack H. Obama were INEVITABLE! ( And...John McCain!)
If generations of American children attend socialist government schools we will raise up generations of SOCIALISTS!
This dirty old RINO threw the election and lied about never supporting amnesty..and the people still don’t get it.
Will enough ‘get it’ in Nov?
The ONLY poll that counts is on 2 November.
“The ONLY poll that counts is on 2 November.”
Not so, the primary is in August.
That must be a relief for him. Now he can get off that silly “build the fence” stuff and get down to the real business of amnesty and cap and trade.
The "dog food" the GOP put up against harry in Nevada was a waste of time and money.....
And this against what all on this site predicted back in Jan/Feb to be a "sure thing". That the rinos could put almost anyone up against reid and he'd lose big time (go back and look at all the posts about this during the Jan/Feb timeframe.)
Ah well....me thinks the "predicted" gains by the rinos this coming November are going to be few and far between.
But we'll just have to wait for that Nov. poll, won't we?
LegendHasIt: McCain no longer potentially conservative.
>> U.S. Sen. John McCain is pulling further away from rival J.D. Hayworth
BS.
>> automated push-button telephone poll of 595 likely Republican primary voters
I bet the majority polled are both physically and mentally retired.
JD should get the ground game going on the elders pointing to the interests of the grand children, and not that of the toothless warriors.
That’s ridiculous. Sarah was in the picture when JD was closing in.
JD did not come across well in the debates; kept harping on one theme.
I doubt that he would win in the general, anyway. People that are for JD act like if he won the primary, he would be the next senator. They forget that he would have to win in the general and that is not a gurantee.
If McLame wins the primary, then who willbe his democrap opponent?
I am with Ann coulter on this- The people should pick the real democrap and not the fake democrap-McLame.
I hope he loses the primary. if he doesn’t, then Ihope he loses the election.
Angle is a RINO?
Thank you, Sarah Palin.
So much for her vaunted “leadership”....leading sissified conservatives right over the edge.
The debates didn’t help McCain. In reality, very few people watch debates. Even I didn’t, and I’m pretty politically concerned.
McCain is outspending Hayworth 10:1, and JD isn’t exactly the finest candidate in the world. I think his ad encouraging folks to get money from the government did him in...right or wrong, it wasn’t a good thing to do and McCain has milked it. And since I’ve heard a lot of McCain ads, and yet to see one from JD, what should we expect?
That is why I’m worried about Giffords winning AZ-8. She is awful, but she has money and name recognition. She will have support from unions. The GOP is expecting a cakewalk, and I don’t think it will happen.
Thanks Sarah for helping this filthy Leftist Corpse too remain on our payroll.
Good point.
I stand corrected.
Then Arizona deserves him.
Methinks there are an abnormal amount of RINO and progressive loving idiots in AZ.....prove me wrong. =.=
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