Posted on 09/09/2014 6:10:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
This election year, Lindsey Graham has the weakest foothold of all Republican incumbents in the U.S. Senate, according to results of a poll released on Sept. 7. The 2014 “Battleground Tracker,” conducted by YouGov.com on behalf of the New York Times and CBS News, finds the South Carolina senator to have confirmed support from only 37 percent of voters in the state. Another five percent say they are currently leaning toward the incumbent, but can’t confirm their votes for Graham.
His 37-percent take is not only lowest of all 13 Republican senators up for re-election this year, who average 53.5 percent in support; it also marks a recent drop for Graham, as well. A July study found 45 percent of likely voters to support the incumbent. Those former supporters apparently changed status to undecided, a number that’s grown from eight percent in July’s poll to 19 for September.
“It clearly shows that Graham is very weak,” said Lachlan McIntosh, campaign manager for state Sen. Brad Hutto, who is Graham’s Democratic opponent in 2014. “Hutto can win with the normal Democratic coalition in South Carolina.”
Hutto, who’s represented the Orangeburg region in state senate since 1996, currently has support from 28 percent of likely voters, with another one percent leaning his way. He leads Graham most in voters under the age of 45, however, which is the same age group with the highest portion of undecided respondents (31 percent). The incumbent senator only has majority support from voters who self-identify as conservatives and who are of ages 65 and older.
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OK first destroy them in the primary, I wish you luck. When you can’t beat them with the republican electorate in a state then I think you have to reevaluate for the general.
As to Lindsey Graham, this is the type of absolutism we often see here. Lindsey Graham often is an idiotic embarrassment to conservatives and to common sense, as he panders to stupid liberal pressure groups. However it also is a fact that Lindsey Graham also often attacks President Obama on very substantive issues.
When we have lost the primary, I can’t agree with only focusing on LG and not considering what the democrat will do to America if elected for 6 long years.
If you vote for their liberal candidate, they know they have you, and you will vote for whatever liberal they run.
I'm not a republican.
I'm a conservative.
I'm in it for the long haul. Not this next election.
I will continue to work to politically destroy all liberal republicans, in the primary or the general election.
/johnny
Well, I think Graham is a backstabbing DC insider, but for the time being, he’s our backstabbing DC insider.
I’ve been taking some heat for posting just that. The folks around here that want to WIN at all cost end up with the short end of the stick.
Do they forget the disaster of the 2005-2006 Congress? All RINO’s that raised spending, expanded Medicare, yapped on about “comprehensive immigration reform” and gave us the first TARP spending. When they did lower tax rates, a-holes like McCain demanded they be ‘temporary’. Then when he ran for prez in 2008 he campaigned on making them ‘permanent’.
I can’t believe some FReepers think that’s better than Dems in charge. Instead of nine inches being shoved up my you-know-what I’m supposed to be happy if I only get six inches.
You have a bad memory. Remember when Bush was Prez? He started the ‘stimulus’ and they were on board because “something had to be done”.
Also I have three words for you: Comprehensive Immigration Reform. McCain, McConnell, Graham, Alexander, Corker, Maine bimbo, et al are FOR IT!!
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