Posted on 06/13/2014 5:25:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is well ahead of his Republican primary challenger but polling under 50 percent a few months ahead of his August primary, a new poll provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows.
Alexander leads Tea Party-backed state Rep. Joe Carr 44-20, the Triton Polling poll of approximately 1037 likely GOP primary voters and conducted Wednesday this week found. The poll was commissioned by Tea Party Nation.
Polling in the race has been sparse, but the new poll shows higher support for Carr and lower support for Alexander than other surveys. A February North Star Strategies poll had Alexander up 62-17 while one released last week from the same firm had Alexander up 56-14.
Alexander's approval rating in the new poll – voters who either strongly or somewhat approve of his job performance – was 57 percent approval rating.
Carr’s name ID is rising in the state. 68 percent of Tennessee GOP primary voters know Carr the poll found. Twenty percent had a positive impression of him while 8 percent had a negative impression. Thirty-eight percent had no opinion on him.
Other candidates—like Dr. George Flinn, who has been suspected of being a spoiler candidate Alexander brought in to weaken Carr’s chances—barely register in the poll.
More than 57 percent of GOP primary voters say they would either “very likely” or “likely” support a conservative challenger to Alexander, and 25 percent answered they weren’t sure when asked that question—so it seems Carr’s biggest challenge between now and election day in early August is raising his name ID. Only 14.5 percent said it was unlikely or very unlikely they’d support a conservative challenger to Alexander, while 3.4 percent said they weren’t sure or didn’t know.
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Carr is doing better than Brat was a week before his primary...LOL.
good news indeed....!
Someone needs to get Mark Levin to tell people to care about this race!!! A little more attention from national conservatives could turn this race into the next cause celebre.
I didn’t really think this race was getting much attention, but after Brat and McDaniel, it’s beginning to appear on the national radar. Carr still remains badly outmatched in resources, and hence it’s still Lamar!’s to lose.
He needs to get his butt into West TN Millington Area, there is a base ball stadium that could be filled. If word got out, he would draw out of Shelby, Tipton and Fayette county. Big Military retirement communities, needs to be a day event, many seniors like me do not drive well after dusk. There are NO SIGNS OUT, no bumper stickers on cars. Mail outs only reach a handful of people. PRESENCE is NEEDED ASAP. Aug is not that far away.
I finally goggled your tagline, LOL. I missed that little bit of idiocy from Sharpton.
He is a national treasure.
I am pretty certain that one particular candidates is a spoiler for Alexander.
Also, take it fwiw, but the word on the street is that Alexander is worried.
If Eric Cantor can lose a primary to an unknown challenger, so can Lamar The Mediocre. I hope that Tennessee conservatives are quietly throwing their energy into getting Joe Carr elected to the Senate.
Forget quietly, it’s time to get LOUD.
Challenger should be saying the word “immigration” all day, every day, until his goes hoarse.
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