Posted on 08/25/2012 11:50:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment aren't the only ones who want Rep. Todd Akin out of the Missouri Senate race due to his controversial "legitimate rape" comments. A Missouri poll shows that even his best supporters, by a whopping 17 points, want him to drop out. Only Democrats want him to stay in the race.
According to a new St. Louis Post-Dispatch/News 4 poll, self-described Akin supporters want him to quit by a 50-34 margin. His image in the new poll is abysmal, with just 17 percent viewing him favorably and 56 unfavorably.
And the bottom line on his chances of beating Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who he led comfortably before the scandal by five points is just as bad. He is currently nine points behind McCaskill, 50 percent to 41 percent.
The poll echoes a similar Rasmussen Report released Friday that showed a similar shift in the race that many analysts said was Akin's to win.
The poll reinforces efforts to convince Akin to drop out of the race. He has until September 25 to get his name off the ballot. Akin on Friday dismayed the GOP establishment by announce he was staying in the race. He suggested that he was going to run against the establishment, but even allies like conservative talk show hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity, as well as Romney and Ryan, have called on him to step down.
Anti-Akin forces Saturday were pointing to the fact that even Akin's own supporters want him out of the race and were hopeful that Akin would act on that finding.
An Akin associate, however, said that his campaign expects the furor to die down and that with the help of some new ads he will stage a comeback. And a key Washington conservative activist told Secrets that some conservatives are rallying around Akin and are upset that he's being left out to dry by the GOP presidential ticket.
Other details from the poll:
-- Women are running from him. While they were previously split between Akin and McCaskill, women now oppose him by almost 20 percent, 55 percent against to 37 percent for.
-- Republicans want him to withdraw, 47 percent to 37 percent.
-- Independents want him to withdraw, 57 percent to 25 percent.
-- Undecided voters, by a 67 percent to 16 percent margin, want him to withdraw.
-- Only Democrats support his candidacy. Some 47 percent want him to stay in the race, while 37 percent said he should withdraw.
This is nothing but a manufactured controversy, aimed to misconstrue more than 32 years of stated GOP policy. "Obama's allies say this silence is somehow an explicit refusal to allow exceptions for rape--[even] dubbing this pro-life plank the Akin Amendment"--despite the fact that Congressman Akin had nothing to do with the platform. The fact that the Left has turned the pro-life plank (which dates back to Ronald Reagan) into an Akin controversy is just another example of slanted media coverage. (I await the same coverage on the "McCaskill language" of the Democratic platform which calls for taxpayer funding of abortion on demand!) The GOP is a party that respects all human life. Now is the time to stand by the leaders who fight for it.
I’ve said my piece on this - Akin’s decisions have been very unfortunate - but it’s time to start ignoring it.
How many McCasket signs did you see? My guess is pretty close to zero.
Around here, there are virtually NO signs up for ANY candidate. It’s just too early.
See, the statement by StevenFlorida was highly nuanced, to whit...
...all of the national PACs and Republican Committes have stopped spending anything on the race.
She isn't a "national" PAC, is she?
she intended to damage the republican voting strength by keeping a strong conservative out of the race.
Since you didn't name anyone in particular which "strong conservative", in your opinion, was she trying to keep out of the race?
Sure, I will get behind him. I can’t vote for him, as I don’t live in Fla.
I am not sending any money to him, are you?
That is the bottom line. You can’t run a successful campaign with no money.
I don’t think it’s a game.
Indeed the future of my Country and of my grandchildren are at risk.
Amen! Last night, again, his apology ad was shown over and over again on TV. Just the apology. He made no effort to move that issue off the table and start talking about things that matter, i.e., Obamacare, the economy, jobs, the deficit, the balloning government workforce, etc. His hubris and lack of insight into what he has done is breathtaking.
There is no way I would ever vote for Claire, but I'm very unhappy this guy is my only other choice.
>Why not spell it out?
Because this is not the DUmp. Besides, if akin were to make the right move and drop out, it would become Bless You Todd Akin.
He had a good voting record and he should end it with that instead of forcing the little witch upon all of us.
— Women are running from him. While they were previously split between Akin and McCaskill, women now oppose him by almost 20 percent, 55 percent against to 37 percent for.
— Republicans want him to withdraw, 47 percent to 37 percent.
— Independents want him to withdraw, 57 percent to 25 percent.
— Undecided voters, by a 67 percent to 16 percent margin, want him to withdraw.
— Only Democrats support his candidacy. Some 47 percent want him to stay in the race, while 37 percent said he should withdraw.
This bears repeating for the depleted uranium heads.
I’ve read that Pest Dispatch article several times, and nowhere in it does it say what percentage of voters actually support McCasket.
The much discussed Rasmussen poll shows McCasket at 48%, up from 44% in the previous poll. In other words, she could only pick up 4% after the media storm blew through and after the GOP-E lynch mob got done with their work.
The biggest gain there was the “prefer another candidate” category, as yet unnamed.
I suspect the Pest Dispatch deliberately danced around the real numbers because, like the Rasmussen poll, it would show McCasket’s underlying weakness, polling at less than 50% after her opponent was completely trashed by the media, the RNC, and the DNC.
It will certainly be interesting to see the next round of polls on this race in a couple of weeks as the kneejerk effect subsides.
No, but he’s probably pretty rich now. Keeping control of the Senate is likely worth billions to the Democrats. What do you think that the stimulus money was for?
He made no effort to move that issue off the table and start talking about things that matter...
If it was shown during regular commercial breaks you do realize that TV stations sell blocks of air time for advertising on the local and national level and that contracts are signed ensuring that the ads/commercials run, don't you?
Do you have those annoying "ambulance chaser" commercials that get shown over and over and over where you live?
Stations will rarely, if ever, sell only two or three time slots. They sell ad spots in bulk and that's why you see that irritating "ambulance chaser" commercial so many times. He/she got a cut rate by buying so much air time.
If Akin could only buy a "block" of time then there will be "X" number of times the ad is aired no matter what the candidate wants. The most he could do would be to move the time slot in which it is aired.
Once ad space/commercial time is bought the ads are going to run or else the station loses money as they preallocate time in programming for those ads and stations aren't going to lose money by wasting that time space with nothing to fill in on a pulled ad.
See, I know about this stuff because one of my many jobs over the course of my life had me showing those ads and commercials.
Something stinks here. Why would he come out and say what he said so close to the election?
...and nowhere in it does it say what percentage of voters actually support McCasket.
Perhaps you're expected to take the results of this question to be representative or indicative of that...
QUESTION: If the 2012 general election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, would you vote for Claire McCaskill, the Democrat, or Todd Akin, the Republican?
.................McCASKILL....AKIN
Democrat ...........89 .............5
Republican .........14 ............79
Independent .......52 ............35
...625 registered Missouri voters interviewed statewide by phone. All stated they were likely to vote in the November general election.
You know how it is.
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