Posted on 05/12/2014 2:50:07 PM PDT by SMGFan
Democrats in three top southern Senate races are holding their own — and even running ahead in a few cases — against Republicans in a new poll out Monday. A new series of NBC News/Marist polls show Democrats in Arkansas, Kentucky and Georgia are running even or ahead of their GOP opponents.
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You can dismiss the NBC/Marist polls, as they are apparently “registered voters” polls. Unless they are likely voters with the proper partisan balancing, they are useless.
No, they are useful in demoralizing certain people.
I dunno—I’ve been asking for a long time just what the Republicans are giving conservatives like me to vote for.
I held my nose in 2012 and voted for Romney, but no more.
right you are.
for the next 5 months, the lefty polls will all be pushing their “Pollaganda” like they do every election cycle.
Some of these polls at this time are meant simply to encourage donations to the “endangered” DimocRAT Senate candidates.
I don’t blame them....they work and actually turn out to be accurate.
I held my nose in 2012 and voted for Romney, but no more.
Same here. This time I’m voting for the democrat in my state. I’d rather get it over with than prolong the agony.
It'll be a cold day in Hell when I ever pull a lever for a Dem.
I want to give you an opportunity to say that was sarcasm before I tell you what I think of that statement.
There are probably about 10,000 posts from the 2012 presidential election where people explained that the polls were skewed due to democrat sample bias, registered votes bias, etc... And in the end, the polls were pretty close, and often Obama ended up doing better than the polls indicated. So if republicans are close or behind, you better start worrying. Especially if we are talking about a great candidate like Tom Cotton who should be ahead by double digits in Arkansas.
I want to know if he’s serious. Voting left wing Democrat is NOT an acceptable option for conservatives.
/johnny
What a pity it doesn't really work that way.
/johnny
That’s because many were skewed. I take issue especially with any media outlet (or campaign) that would release a “registered voters” poll and consider it a legitimate indicator of what will happen at the ballot box.
” So if republicans are close or behind, you better start worrying.’
What is the Republican Party message in 2014? This is a year in which a decent alternative to the status quo should win in a walk. The fact many races are close or fluid suggests voters are unclear as to what the opposition is offering that is better. All the voters see today from the Republicans is infighting, not a unified message. Of course this may be intentional and a great strategy if your objective is to throw away an almost certain victory.
That one was a bridge too far for me. I voted for Virgil Goode.
If it appears that the Democrats will hold the Senate, then some voters would not want to oust their own Democrat. Operation “Stop the Wave”?
Actually, the “likely voter” model has proven wrong over the last few cycles.
Ignore at your peril.
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