Posted on 10/15/2012 12:39:05 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
A Republican polling firm has GOP Rep. Todd Akin up by four points over Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in their hard-fought Missouri Senate race.
Mr. Akin led his opponent 49 percent to 45 percent in a survey conducted for the Citizens United Victory Fund by Wenzel Strategies, one of just two polls to give him the upper hand after his party all but abandoned him in August for his widely condemned comments that victims of "legitimate" rape are unlikely to become pregnant.
That's because Mr. Akin led among independents by a 50 percent to 41 percent margin, according to the pollster. He also appeared to have stronger support from his own party. Eighty-four percent of Republican respondents said they would vote for him, compared to 82 percent of Democrats for Mrs. McCaskill.
Both candidates are struggling with their likeability quotient. Despite Mr. Akin's well-chronicled troubles, Mrs. McCaskill appeared even less popular with voters, viewed unfavorably by 52 percent of respondents, compared to 49 percent who said they did not like Mr. Akin.
Most polls had shown Mrs. McCaskill holding about a six-point lead over Mr. Akin over the last few weeks, after the congressman lost major ground in the wake of his rape comments. While national Republican Party officials still refuse to back him, more GOP-affiliated and social conservative groups have since lent him a hand, still hoping to turn around a race that could help the party win control of the Senate.
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Akin is a near perfect candidate that repeated information given him by someone else and everyone attacks him, the whining libs and the equally whining repugs. Vote for Akin because while you did not have his back he will have yours.
Very true. If that comment was made with only one month remaining, he would have had no chance.
I hope he comes all the way back and wins handily.
I think Romney coattails will help him.
Three great reasons to be for Akin, and I was from the start. Let's beat Cornyn in the 2014 primary.
Like-ability:Akin 52 McCaskill 49. The problem for McCaskill is that those who say they don’t like her are telling the truth whereas those saying it about Akin are saying it (to some extent) because they are not comfortable telling a pollster they still like him. The spread is bigger than 3 points and that will carry Akin. Yes I was one of those that attacked him, but I have reversed and written so here. I have contributed to him and I suggest others who jumped on him as I did do the same. Wouldn’t it be great to stick it to Tokyo Rove and the rest of them?
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