Childers, Cochran in Dead Heat Among GOP Voters in Chism Poll

Sun Herald ^ | July 1, 2014

[nickcarraway]

Amid all the post-Senate election hubub over the weekend, Chism Strategies released a poll that shows Democrat Travis Childers and Republican Thad Cochran in a dead heat for a Senate seat that before the primary was considered a lock for the GOP.

The best news for Cochran is 42 percent of those polled are undecided. Childers is at 22 percent and Cochran at 21 in the poll of 832 Cochran and McDaniel supporters with landline phones on June 27. Only 2 percent of those polled were black. And the only Democrats polled apparently were crossover votes.\ Chism is the pollster who said McDaniel was up by 8 percent June 21 but the firm added this caveat: “How We See It Unless Cochran expands the electorate with general election Republicans and crossover Democrats, McDaniel wins.” Another troubling finding for Cochran in the latest poll: “When we asked McDaniel supporters which candidate they would support in the general election, 21% said they would vote for Democrat Travis Childers and another 16% said they would probably not vote at all. Only 22% of McDaniel’s supporters were committed to vote for Cochran in November.”

Chism, according to Y'all Politics, is hosting a fundraiser for Childers tonight in Jackson

A Rassmussen poll released Friday has Cochran up by 12 points, 42-34, a five-point dip from its March poll. Read the rest of the poll summary here.

[Carry me back]

Yep, hopefully McDaniel runs and wins. If not don’t let Thud win.

[Carry me back]

Put McDaniel in ,the traitor, Thud and his traitor handlers must not prevail.

[deport]

MS GOP Executive Committee meets with heightened security

JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
The Mississippi Republican Party Executive Committee just wrapped up a meeting
discussing the 2014 senator runoff results

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"Irregularities in every county, so we've covered 38 counties now, said
State Senator Michael Watson. "We have what we think is evidence of roughly
3300 plus or minus a few more irregularities in those counties. We've not
yet touched the Delta, we've not yet touched the absentee ballots."
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[deport]

All numbers should be at the Sec. of State's Office by Monday the 7th.
They will publish the results and then anyone contesting the election can file a
complaint, but that has to be in a court of law.

And so they say.............

[xzins]

We'll have nothing to lose at that point.

I agree. Childers is the best protest vote against the Cochran treachery. Staying at home is a decent protest vote, too.

[xzins]

So, by recent numbers, if 20% of their base votes against Cochran for Childers, then Cochran loses 150,000 votes from his 2008 run and ends up with 610,000 votes. Adding that 150 to the Democrat’s 480 = 630,000 for a Democrat victory.

The GOP must make peace with that 20% or lose. If they don’t try at all to make peace, what does that say?