[cotton1706]

For all of McConnell's ads in the past number of months, he hasn't moved in the polls at all. He's going to lose in November if he's the nominee.

[Viennacon]

“Pryor leads Cotton 46 percent to 36 percent among registered Arkansas voters in the New York Times Upshot/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.”

Bull. He was behind by two points, now he’s ahead by TEN?! NYT are shilling for Pryor who is in mortal peril. There is no way Arkansas voters, who despise Obama, are going to vote for Pryor over Cotton.

[TomGuy]

NYT poll shows Mark Pryor up 10 in Arkansas

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The power of suggestion. If the Lib Media say Cotton is losing, maybe the voters will vote for Pryor.

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There have been several threads recently that show the incumbents polling better than their right-wing conservative TeaParty wacko Christian conservative challengers.

[Of course, early on in 2012, the conservatives were winning by large margins and pundits claimed the Senate would change. It didn't happen then. 2014 may be similar. Graham, Pryor and Landreau both seem to be polling better now.]

[stratboy]

If we use their logic, the gop-e needs to rally around Matt Bevin, he is the only electable candidate. At least that what they always tell us when they want us to vote for their candidate (Romney, McCain, etc)

[cuban leaf]

Yep. I’m one of those conservatives who will vote for Bevin in the primary and Bevin in the general. If bevin is not on the ticket in the general, I’ll vote for the Democrat.

The party’s only hope is to be cleansed of folks like McConnel. If this means defeating him in the general, so be it.

[nhwingut]

If you look at the internals the NY Times poll demo is a joke even for lib poll standards.



In LA, those polled voted for Obama over Romney by 3. Romney won LA by 17. 20 point swing.

In NC, those polled voted for Obama over Romney by 7. Romney won NC by 3. 10 point swing.

In AR, those polled voted for Romney over Obama by only 1. Romney won AR by 24. 23 point swing.

In KY, those polled voted for Romney over Obama by only 3. Romney won KY by 23. 20 point swing.

Furthermore. Look at those who didn't even vote in the 2012 election. Those are all low info Democrat voters. These people are going to suddenly vote in a off year mid term when they sat out a POTUS election? I don't think so.

[mrsmith]

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1146701/polls-in-four-southern-states-april-8-15-2014.pdf

I think this is one poll that can safely be laughed at. Question number 21 is interesting.

[skinkinthegrass]

Yeah..."Reid's *itch" McConnell, is running Commercials,
about how HE'S a Workhorse for KY.'s Voters...What an Cr@ppy Liar.
lining his bra, dress and garter belts w/ USACoC Lobbists' $$$$

[Helotes]

Perfect example of how other papers pick up the first paper’s erroneous poll result and echo the bogus claim. This poll has already failed the laugh test:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/why-new-york-times-poll-bogus_787275.html

[Flame Retardant]

The media tries to spin this as "people are coming around to support Obamacare", but other factors are more important based on my experience.

For instance, I've heard from at least three Republicans who are unenthusiastic about Cotton because of his position on government surveillance (defender of the status quo, against meaningful reform of the NSA and other alphabet-soup Big Brother agencies), but not a single one who has gotten one whit less hostile to Obamacare.