This Is The Last Week For Conservatives To Remove A GOP Incumbent Senator

dailycaller.com ^ | 8/4/14 | Alex Pappas

[cotton1706]

They’ve spent loads of money, and, in some cases, have energized the grassroots against the so-called Republican establishment.

But so far this year, conservative challengers have failed to topple a single incumbent Republican senator: John Cornyn of Texas, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have all been victorious over their tea party rivals.

That makes this week — when voters go to the polls in Kansas and Tennessee — the last chance this primary cycle when a conservative challenger could take out a Republican incumbent senator, replacing them on the ballot in November.

In Kansas, radiologist Milton Wolf, who boasts of being related to Barack Obama, is angling to beat Sen. Pat Roberts in Tuesday’s Republican primary. In Tennessee, state House Rep. Joe Carr is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander in Thursday’s vote.

Polling indicates that both Roberts and Alexander are heavily favored to win their races.

A recent poll by Survey USA shows Roberts up by 20 points.

But last week, the Senate Conservatives Fund, which endorsed Wolf, celebrated a poll they commissioned showing Wolf down just nine points.

“We just received the results of our latest poll in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kansas, and the race is down to single digits!! Conservative Dr. Milton Wolf (R-KS) has cut Senator Pat Roberts’ lead down to just nine points and only trails 41-32,” the Senate Conservatives Fund said in a fundraising solicitation.

Like in Kansas, polling in the Tennessee race is all over the board: Alexander’s campaign released a poll showing him leading Carr by 29 points. A poll sponsored by the Tea Party Nation shows Alexander up by just eight points.

[Sioux-san]

Point taken - I was amazed that Graham did so well, so was grasping at straws ;)