The poll doesn’t reflect that 51 points is an unprecedented low for this man; he can be taken out, with appropriate funding and it being targeted.
Will someone please start asking him about Trump.
Its doubtful it will happen this cycle. The Loras poll is definitely the outlier, and everybody has been showing him with a comfortable lead of around 10 points. Plus he has a huge financial advantage.
Things don’t look great in Ohio either, where Stickland is not fighting back while getting buried by Portman on the airwaves and in the polls.
On the upside however, we are looking much better in NC and pushing up in MO. And I feel that FL will tighten after the primaires at the end of this month. Things are also looking much better in AZ.
Realistically, I see us taking WI, IL, IN, PA, NH and a better than 50% chance of taking NC, and about 50% in FL and MO. That’s 8 with 3 up in the air…we won’t lose all three, but we probably won’t win all three. So a +6-7 seats.
Times like these are reminders of how suicidal an unkept republic can be.
Grassley: This is working out great. I will block all SCOTUS nominees when Hillary becomes president.
Maybe, coz it’s Iowa, just too much pesticide residue in the domestic water supply.
I knew someone who was deeply into Democratic politics in Ohio and he said Strickland just isn’t that good a campaigner. Add to that the fact that he was Governor during the recession, so Portman is tying the job losses on him and he would have to be a great campaigner to pull this out. I’m not involved in Democratic politics, so I have no idea who would have been good to run this year, but I don’t think we are going to pull this out. I actually voted for Paul Sitwell in the primary. He was very liberal and a new name. He wasn’t a big name, however and Strickland trounced him.
Because for at least 50% of Iowa’s voters, not electing Grassley, however senile he is, would be like euthanasia. “It’s a turble thing, Floyd.”
If I remember correctly, Strickland came into the primary sort of late, and trounced him on name recognition and a promise of great fund raising…which apparently hasn’t happened.
I’ve read a lot of concern lately that Strickland is doing absolutely nothing to push back on Portman hanging the recession around his neck, and that’s become a real problem. Weak campaigner letting his opponent frame him early without any pushback? Doesn’t sound like a recipe for success.
Yes, he has a ton of money, and perhaps the Garland matter is fading from the public’s attention but he has decided to embrace Trump and to share a stage with him. We’ll see how the fall campaign goes with that. But really, that 51% is remarkable. He usually is in the 66 to 70% region. the fact that he has been there forever and his most recent claim to fame is as an obstructionist does seem to be whittling his favorability.
Nutrients, not pesticide. It’s the nitrates.
And RCP has Clinton up 0.8% in Iowa. Wow.