POLL: CORNYN WON’T WIN MARCH 4 TEXAS GOP PRIMARY

Stockman for Senate ^ | 2/17/14 | Stockman for Senate

[jimbo123]

Just 22 months after Ted Cruz’s upset victory over Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Texas Republicans want to toss another high-profile establishment Republican into a runoff for a U.S. Senate seat against his conservative challenger.

A new Gravis/Human Events poll shows incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) with only 43 percent support in the March 4 Texas Republican primary, forcing him into a May 27 runoff against U.S. Rep Steve Stockman (R-TX 36.)

Stockman is in second place, grabbing 28 percent and quickly closing in on Cornyn. The remaining 29 percent were undecided.

The poll was conducted before voters knew Cornyn voted the evening of Feb. 12 to kill a Ted Cruz filibuster and advance a total suspension of Obama’s debt limit until March 2015. Cornyn’s vote to raise the debt limit set off a firestorm of opposition to him among Texas Republican voters.

Gravis Marketing conducted the poll Feb. 10-12 for “Human Events,” a prominent national conservative newspaper. It was published Monday in “Human Events” and was not commissioned by any campaign or conducted with any campaign’s knowledge.

This is the fifth poll published in Cornyn’s race. All five show Cornyn forced into a runoff. Research by polling experts shows undecided voters usually do not break for the incumbents and incumbents usually lose runoff elections.

“The buzzards are circling over John Cornyn. A runoff is an incumbent’s death sentence,” said Stockman spokesman Donny Ferguson. “This is why Cornyn refuses to release his internal poll numbers.”

[wmfights]

I love Ted Cruz & Mike Lee. They force Pubs to show where they stand. If we support Pubs that don’t represent us, after we find out they are against us, we deserve what happens next.

[jimbo123]

Dwayne Stovall
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Steve Stockman
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Linda Vega
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Chris Mapp
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Ken Cope
http://www.copetexas.com/
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Curt Cleaver
http://www.curtcleaver.com/
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Reid Reasor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colonel-Reasor-for-US-Senate-Texas-Cornyn-has-to-go/216804378487564

John Cornyn
http://www.johncornyn.com/
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https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn

[LS]

Misleading headline. Cornyn leads by 15. It’s fine to say he won’t reach 50%, but Stockman is still a long way away.

[JPG]

Tea Party? Nope, never heard of it.

[RIghtwardHo]

While that would be, well, awesome . . . there is zero chance of that. yeah, there may be a runoff but at this point Cornyn wins in a walk.

[Vigilanteman]

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are, indeed, the best one-two punch I've seen in the U.S. Senate in years. Not to take anything away from Tom Coburn (retiring) or Sen. Jeff Sessions (too much of a gentleman), but we need more younger brass knuckle fighters like these guys in the U.S. Senate.

Replacing Cornyn and the parrot-beaked turtle from Kentucky alone will DOUBLE those numbers.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I honestly don’t know much about Stockman, can someone enlighten me.

I don’t just want to vote for someone just because he is not someone else.

[txrefugee]

Did you predict that Dewhurst would beat Ted Cruz? Most “experts” did. Texas Republicans are not the typical low-information sheeple that populate other states.

[LibLieSlayer]

If cornholio has a runoff... he will lose.

[jimbo123]

Dwayne Stovall
http://www.texansforstovall.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texans-For-Stovall/155741434543722
https://twitter.com/dwaynestovall

Steve Stockman
http://www.stockman2014.com/
https://www.facebook.com/congressmanstevestockman
https://twitter.com/stockmansenate

[deport]

Misleading headline.

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The source explains that.

[jocon307]

I guess the theory/hope is that, in a run-off, all the anti-Cornyn vote will be consolidated behind whoever the remaining opponent is. I don’t know enough to know how these things have worked out in the past, I imagine a good deal might depend on exactly who is that second place finisher.

[jimbo123]

Rep. Steve Stockman @StockmanSenate 2m

Why won’t Cornyn release his internal poll numbers? He given three days to comment on the poll. Why didn’t he counter with his own numbers?

https://twitter.com/stockmansenate

[JRandomFreeper]

Troll. You have no clue what is going on in Texas. The polls are showing that Cornyn doesn't have the support to get to 50%, and if it goes to a run-off, the money and support starts flowing to his challenger. Just like what happened with Cruz/Dewhurst.

/johnny

[38special]

This Texas independent conservative will be voting for Steve Stockman in the GOP Primary. He is also my congressman.

[JRandomFreeper]

I don’t know enough to know how these things have worked out in the past,

Cruz/Dewhurst is a pretty good example of how it works out. Cruz didn't start getting support and money until after the first vote, and going into the run-off.

/johnny

[no-to-illegals]

Just have to ask ... Have you been talking with c. Rove?

[no-to-illegals]

I found out recently the word *Ho* has been banned in Australia. Santa has no *HO-HO-HO*.

[OKSooner]

Right on. Let's hope for the same for B!+c# and Boner and get the trifecta.

Cantor and McCarthy too. Who else? :)