“The Conservative Journal polling over the weekend put her five points down from Coons 50-45 with five percent undecided. I see hope for the high tide sweeping her to victory today. “
I hadn’t heard about that poll. I had written this race off. That is encouraging. I will be praying for Christine and the rest of the patriots on the ballot today. Let’s hope for 100 pickup in the House and 13-14 in the Senate.
She will win and McKooksi will lose. She was running around yesterday courting the Eskimo vote and trying to teach them how to spell her name.
there are a lot of good reasons to be optimistic.
Brices Crossroads has done good work showing the facebook numbers. In an 18 hour period from 6a to midnight monday, Christine added 235 facebook fans and Coons added 30. That’s about 8 to 1.
The Christine / tea party express rally on Sunday drew 1000+.
The Coons / Biden rally on Monday drew 200 at most.
The motivation, excitement, enthusiasm for Christine on the ground is there, and it’s not there for Coons.
Typically, motivated, excited, enthusiastic voters are more likely to vote. That’s the “enthusiasm gap” that people have been talking about.
So far, the attacks on Christine have tried to paint her as a witch, who doesn’t like masturbation and who doesn’t fully understand the 1st Amendment. None of those things are the kinds of things that would make someone get up and out of the house and vote for her opponent.
Christine has remained focused on the basic message that Coons would be a bad Senator. If you elect Coons, he will make your life worse. I’m not sure that anyone has bothered to tie together these interesting things about Christine with making your life worse.
There are lots of reasons to think that the polls will be way off in a lot of places this year. Many pollsters started polling with the assumption that the same people will be voting this year as in 2008. We, here, know that a lot of Conservatives were not thrilled with McCain in 2008. Palin was not enough for many of them, and a lot of them stayed home. Often, if you did not vote in 2008, you are not considered a likely voter by pollsters.
On the other hand, I honestly don’t believe that TCJ is actually taking polls. But the number is fairly reasonable, although I think Christine will win.