Posted on 06/04/2014 8:45:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham would get 49 percent of the Republican primary vote with his challengers trailing in single digits and one-in-three voters still undecided, according to a new Clemson University poll.
The survey of 400 likely GOP primary voters indicates that Graham could be "perched" to win the primary outright, said political scientists Dave Woodard and Bruce Ransom in a webcast news conference about the poll.
The Palmetto Poll shows state Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, in second place with 9 percent, followed by Easley businessman Richard Cash at 3 percent, Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace at 2 percent, and Columbia pastor Det Bowers and Orangeburg attorney Bill Connor at 1 percent each. Columbia attorney Benjamin Dunn's support did not register.
Another factor favoring Graham is that GOP voters increasingly say they would vote to re-elect the Seneca incumbent regardless of who runs against him -- at 46 percent in the new poll, up from 31 percent of voters in a September poll.
The outlook on June 10 could change from the poll, taken between May 22 and May 29, Woodard said, but "that's a 40 percent gap, so we don't think anybody can make that up."
GOP primary voters picked Gov. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, overwhelmingly when asked how they plan to vote in November's general election.
Haley received 73 percent support from Republicans, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Camden Democrat, earned 6 percent of the GOP vote in the poll, and Greenville attorney Tom Ervin, who dropped out of the GOP primary to run as an "Independent Republican" petition candidate, earned 2 percent of the vote.
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We may be looking at a runoff in South Carolina too!!
Re-elect him and he’ll go hard left to spite his base, just like his pal John McCain.
I really thought South Carolinians were smarter than this.
If the dems win this in Nov, it’s worth the loss. We just have to deal with it. Of course we will offset that loss so net gain anyway.
If this primary goes to a run-off, the chances of the ABG winner multiply greatly! Go Lee Bright!
Who are they polling? I don’t know of a single person that plans to vote for Graham. If he wins the primary, come November it will be the first time I’ve ever voted for a dem for senate.
“I really thought South Carolinians were smarter than this.”
Graham may be a weasel, but he’s also wiley: he knows he benefits from all of the competitors stepping over themselves for his seat, and presents himself as the solid, trusted choice. I imagine a lot of South Carolinians are just holding their nose for the devil they know because they don’t want to sort through a half dozen challengers they know nothing about. But in all likelihood, Graham wins and he knows it. Yet another reason I’m not a Republican anymore: the GOP is dominated at the leadership level by guys like him that stay in power by the sheer weight of incumbency, even when he despises his own rank and file party members.
“If the dems win this in Nov, it’s worth the loss. We just have to deal with it. Of course we will offset that loss so net gain anyway.”
I completely agree. One less arrogant and vile oligarch in the US Senate!
If we have to eat this one, so be it. What ever it politically requires. The GOP is as much a problem as the Dems are BECAUSE of this fool and those like him.
SCETV debate Saturday June 3, 7 PM. Call a friend to watch.
7 PM.
7 PM.
7 PM.
Haha, you mean June 7th!
Please remove my posts 6 and 10. Just a mess of time and date errors. Thank you. R2z
Wouldn’t it be nice to NOT see him on some worthless commentary show EVERY Sunday??!!
Conservatives again deploy the “Divide and Lose” strategy
Go to hell SC Repubs
Can’t say since I don’t watch TV. But reading his asinine comments from them is nausea inducing enough. He needs to go along with his merry band of conservative hating cohorts.
I will never forgive my fellow Zonies for McCains last election, nor myself for voting for him to get Palin.
And I LIKE Palin. but the cost was too high.
once again SC is a runoff state if we can keep linda under 50% we win “divide and lose” does not apply here
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