Posted on 06/12/2014 4:18:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) primary challenger, Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, is leading the incumbent by 8 points in a new internal poll of the competitive runoff.
The survey, conducted by WPA Research for McDaniel’s campaign, shows him with 49 percent support to Cochran’s 41 percent support among likely GOP primary voters.
McDaniel’s also got a more solid base of support, with 43 percent of his supporters saying they’ll “definitely” vote for him in the runoff, while 38 percent say the same of Cochran. Ten percent of respondents said they were undecided.
The results align with two other surveys of the runoff conducted over the past week, both of which gave McDaniel a lead. Indeed, runoffs historically favor the challenger, as turnout declines and the candidate with the more enthusiastic following is typically victorious.
McDaniel is getting help from national conservative groups and figures to make sure that happens. The Club for Growth went on air for him on Thursday , attacking Cochran for his votes in office and because he’s trying to “have Democrats hijack the Republican runoff,” a reference to his campaign’s strategy to get Democrats to turn out for him in the runoff.
Josh Duggar, the executive director of the Family Research Council’s political arm and one of the stars of the popular TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” will be at a campaign rally Saturday morning in Pearl, Miss., while former Texas Rep. Ron Paul headlines a 2nd Amendment rally for McDaniel in Hattiesburg, Miss., in the afternoon.
But Cochran is getting some star power of his own — and his is more home-grown.
In a new ad from his campaign, former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) touts Cochran’s work securing funding for job-producing entities in the state, like Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard and the Stennis Space Center.
“Without Thad Cochran, we could lose some of these important facilities,” Lott says, declaring the race is about “jobs in Southern Mississippi.”
Cochran’s campaign is banking on a belief that voters will be swayed to support him in the runoff if they’re aware of how much his power and experience means for the state.
But that message was overshadowed on Thursday as an off-the-cuff comment he made during a speech at a hospital on Tuesday gained notice.
Cochran told the crowd about visiting his grandmother in the area as a young boy and joked that he would spend time in the country “doing all sorts of indecent things with animals.”
The crowd laughed, but national media picked up the comment and it drew jokes on Twitter.
Cochran told the crowd about visiting his grandmother in the area as a young boy and joked that he would spend time in the country “doing all sorts of indecent things with animals.”
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OMG.... Either he was/is a Beastiality pervert or totally mentally incapacitated. If someone doesn’t make a political add of that gaffe, they’re missing a golden opportunity.
It was so weird. And did you know Cochrans sis in law was in custody of those votes?
“Cochran told the crowd about visiting his grandmother in the area as a young boy and joked that he would spend time in the country ‘doing all sorts of indecent things with animals.’”
Where’s the resident Establishment, Big Government Republican FReeper Brigade that always tells us to go with the GOP-e candidate since the conservative/tea party candidate is very likely to lose the election to a Dim in the general election due to foot-in-mouth disease?
Jobs should come from private sector growth, not from government deficit spending.
Yeah, I heard that.
Corrupt as they come.
Agree. Cochran is just a prop in his own campaign, with Boss Hogg
holding up the prop Cochran.
Excellent!
AMEN! When I read that he was only running so that he could then retire and let the governor choose Barbour to replace him, I thought WHAT A DIRTBAG! Barbour knows that people are beginning to notice the switches he has made in his conservative ideology and is afraid he could not carry the vote on his own. Let Cochran do the lifting on this one! That made me even more angry, the tricks that are played! WAKE UP, America! You’re being played for a fool!
This won’t even be close.
According to my sister, who lives on the Coast, Thud hasn’t been doing much at all for the shipyard, despite what Trent says.
Other polls
Georgia Senate Runoff - Insider Advantage
Jack Kingston 46%
RINO David Perdue 35%
MN Senate - Survey USA
Al Franken (D) 48%
Mike McFadden (R) 42%
We have a real shot there
Perhaps not in VA though
VA Senate - “Rasmussen”
Mark Warner (D) 53%
Ed Gillespie (R) 36%
It will be curious to see if Gillespie can (or will) hammer away at Mark Warner. His support in VA has always been baffling to me.
Thanks...Kingston looks good.
It’d be great to see Franken knocked off, shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Looks like it’ll be tough to unseat Warner, gonna have to have some luck.
Me too, why is/was he was so popular? I can’t see any appeal.
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