Boozman Crushing Lincoln

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/06/17/boozman_crushing_lincoln.html


Boozman Crushing Lincoln


A new Rasmussen survey in Arkansas finds Rep. John Boozman (R-AR) way ahead of Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) in the U.S. Senate race, 61% to 32%.

[hobbit709]

1. Harry Truman was right.

[truebrit71]

9. +1000

n/t

[Laelth]

22. Spot on. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[leftstreet]

29. +1

[WeDidIt]

2. I'm sure its bad

But this is Scotty Rasmussen in "narrative setting mode".

It's nowhere near that bad.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. The gap will close

But even 40/29, the largest TV station in Northwest Arkansas, has Boozman out in front by a wide margin.

[RobertPlant]

32. how did mark pryor win close to 80% 2 years ago? n/t

[Ian David]

3. I have mixed feelings about this. n/t

[dhpgetsit]

4. If Arkansas wants a Republican, they will vote GOP. n/t

[mrcheerful]

13. Yep same here in Michigan, the state voted in a D govner then filled the state house with R's

so I expect this year the elections will go all R with a few die hard D's holding their seats, because everything wrong with Michigan is Jenny's fault.

[Lost4words]

5. well the WH got their gal on the ticket, thanks Rahm, thanks DLC

your reign will be short lived

[dmallind]

6. What were Halter's last poll numbers against Boozman again? NT

[gratuitous]

8. Rasmussen, so take it with a grain of salt

But all of the pre-primary polling showed Halter doing much better against Boozman (the presumptive GOP nominee) than Lincoln for the general election. Thankfully, the DLC hung tough with Lincoln so as to more readily hand a Senate seat to the GOP, and ensure that a corporate Democrat like Lincoln would keep the seat warm until Boozman could arrive to help the Republican Wrecking Crew.

Lincoln will not win come November. Halter had a chance to keep this seat in Democratic hands.

[deaniac21]

23. Every poll covered in Arkansas had Halter doing considerably

worse against all 8 repubs. Many of his votes were repubs who were trying to get rid of Lincoln. Most Arkansans are upset about her healthcare vote and most Arkansans hate unions. Halter would have been murdered. He is really a small timer. Lt. Gov is a do nothing job and it's the only office he has ever been elected to.

[gratuitous]

26. Research 2000 showed Halter doing better, 5/12/10

And while Halter trailed Boozman 50-41, Lincoln did even worse, 54-40:

http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2010/5/12/AR/496

[deaniac21]

28. Great source! I have lived here all my life and Arkies are pretty

predictable. Dailykos was on the Halter bandwagon.

[Bryn]

30. Maybe Halter isn't popular in LIttle Rock, but he's very popular

here in Hot Springs (Garland County) where the voting polls were cut down from 42 to 1 in Hot Springs and another one in Hot Springs Village (35-40 minutes apart). Comparing the primary and runoff votes in Garland, Halter lost 16,000+ votes and Lincoln 2,000+ loss in the runoff.

[Subdivisions]

10. Where's the smug little bastard that started exclaiming the unions wasted

$10 million? Where's his smart ass now?

[hobbit709]

11. Keeping quiet.

[provis99]

14. who, Rahm?

You know it was Rahm. His stink is all over this sorry affair.

[joeybee12]

12. But the Chamber of Commerce is still running ads supporting Lincoln...

...just like they did in the primary for her, right? What, no, that can't have been a diversion!

[deaniac21]

15. That is no suprise. She polled well behind all 8 repubs that

were in the senate race. She is gone.

[taught_me_patience]

16. 30 points is impossible to overcome

DNC should pull support and focus on more winnable races.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. Gosh what can we do to help?

:sarcasm:

[MadBadger]

18. Rasmussen says 30, its probably 20. But she's still gonna lose

[Spirochete]

19. If she loses, I might just break down and

shrug.

[sendero]

25. LOL...

... yeah, me too :)

[marmar]

27. Her loss is a foregone conclusion at this point........

nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Bill Halter should do what Vic Rawl is trying to do in SC

We all know damn well that DLC's Charles Tapp stole this thing. Are they going to let Blanche WalMart lose the fucking state, or do the right thing, and reverse the stolen election?

[Art_from_Ark]

21. The lawsuit has been withdrawn

So Blanche is the nominee

[Orangepeel]

24. Eh, we were never going to win that race. She's going to lose, Halter would have lost

:shrug:

[mdmc]

31. GOP vs. GOP-lite

GOP will win, always..

[Bryn]

33. There will be a teabagger running as conservative independent along Boozman

http://www.trevordrown.com/

A ex-green beret named Trevor Drown. He collected over 10,000 signatures in Arkansas to get on the ballot. (over 10,000 teabaggers in Arkansas? Scary!)

from his website:

"Arkansas Has Spoken"

"We have received official notification by the Secretary of State’s office that we received enough signatures and I am a certified candidate for US Senate for the November Ballot. We now wait to see who else will be selected. I would like to thank the people of Arkansas who made this happen. You can read the latest news here."

Lots of republican voters are upset because they think he will suck votes from Boozman and help Lincoln win.