Posted on 11/12/2013 8:30:33 AM PST by cotton1706
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is in a tough spot. He has followed the age old playbook of establishment Republicans – talk conservative at home but play footsie with the Democrats in Washington – for years. Finally, his duplicity is catching up with him.
He’s facing a primary challenge which, though it may not succeed in ousting him. at the very least going to cause him some anxious moments.
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s approval is slipping in South Carolina, two new polls show, but the challengers for his Senate seat still aren’t offering him a significant threat.
Graham’s approval in his home state has dropped nearly 30 points among conservatives in a new Winthrop University poll. Among Republicans and GOP leaners, 45.2 percent approve of the job Graham is doing, down from 71.6 percent in February. His approval among all registered voters stands at 37.4 percent, with 48.5 percent disapproving.
Those numbers are similar to a new poll out Wednesday from conservative firm Harper Polling, which found likely voters had a 44 percent to 37 percent unfavorable view of the Republican senator.
While he still leads all his challengers, under the South Carolina primary system he must break 50% or he will face a runoff. If Graham is forced into a runoff against one conservative challenger he will be in deep trouble.
At first glance, when gaming out Graham’s chances of surviving a multi-candidate primary and going on to win re-election, the logic seems simple: the more competitors, the merrier.
For a lawmaker who has long raised the ire of some rank-and-file conservatives with his deal-brokering and occasional breeches from Republican orthodoxy, there is a benefit to splitting the Tea Party vote into as many parts as possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
“Graham’s approval in his home state has dropped nearly 30 points among conservatives”
Voting with the democrats on Gun Control, Immigration and Obamacare will do that!
Hopefully he goes down this time.
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Support Lee Bright to oust Lindsey Graham in SC
They had a similar rule in Georgia in 1992 for the general elections as well.
That year the conservative vote got siphoned off by a Libertarian, and the incumbent Dem US senator Wyche Fowler won a plurality in the Nov. election, less than 50%. So there was a runoff between him and the Repub, and ol' Wyche got knocked off in the runoff.
Could've used that rule in Virginia last week.
Flimsey Tinkerbelle is facing a growing raft of primary opponents. In South Carolina that’s good; if he gets less than 50% of the primary vote, then he’s forced into a runoff & the fun really begins.
Good!
The view from across the Savannah River here in Georgia is always amazement at how SC could elect such a pure, 100% RINO is such a red state. We have Isakson and Chambliss here too but McCain’s boy next door takes the cake for Southern RINOS, and that says a lot.
Those numbers are similar to a new poll out Wednesday from conservative firm Harper Polling, which found likely voters had a 44 percent to 37 percent unfavorable view of the Republican senator.
While he still leads all his challengers, under the South Carolina primary system he must break 50% or he will face a runoff. If Graham is forced into a runoff against one conservative challenger he will be in deep trouble.
Duh. The author fails to connect the dots with the very data in his article. Lindsey is well below 50% so he will be forced into a runoff and therefore he is in DEEP TROUBLE.
Look for Graham to make a hard right turn at least for another year.
I hope it doesn’t work, but it has worked so many times for Graham and many other Rino’s before.
Linda Grahamnesty is a goner.
SC is no longer a slam dunk red state, unfortunately. Lots of transplants from the NE and many SC Dems are comfortable voting for a liberal like Graham.
No one ‘does’ Lindsey Graham better than Jon Stewart... It’s worth watching the Daily Show to see it.
“SC is no longer a slam dunk red state...”
Not a single rat holds a state-wide office. Republicans control the state legislature. The governor is a republican. That drooling, old fool Clyburn is the only rat in the congressional delegation. Florida has a lot more problems with liberals and RINOs than SC.
I’m sure ol’ Light-in-the-Loafers has learned well from fellow termite McCain on executing the last-minute-conservative-pivot, so as to bamboozle the ignorant sheeple yet again.
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Yes indeed, especially since SC does not have voter registration by party, meaning the primaries are open. Dem votes can put Loafers over the 50% mark in the primary.
SC is not trending purple, no way.
Linda is going real hard right. Linda is introducing legislation for:
1) Public hangings
2) Open carry everywhere
3) Six concurrent high voltage fences at the border, with the National Guard maintaining 50 caliber Gatling Guns with overlapping fire lanes.
4) Reduction of all taxes to 10%
5) Free Drinks after you vote for her.
Not a single rat holds a state-wide office. Republicans control the state legislature. The governor is a republican. That drooling, old fool Clyburn is the only rat in the congressional delegation. Florida has a lot more problems with liberals and RINOs than SC.
That’s because liberals like Grahamnesty have moved into the GOP tent. A generation ago they would have been Dems.
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