Latest New Hampshire poll shows Scott Brown trailing Jeanne Shaheen by 8 points
The latest New Hampshire poll is out and it shows Scott Brown trailing Jeanne Shaheen by 8 points:
With Republican Scott Brown formally in the U.S. Senate race against Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen, a new poll released late Thursday shows Shaheen leading Brown by 8 percentage points.
The poll by Public Policy Polling for the League of Conservation Voters showed Shaheen leading Brown, 49 to 41 percent with 10 percent undecided.
And this is despite the fact that Jeanne Shaheen’s approval rating is under 50%, usually a bad sign for an incumbent. So why is this? The reason is simple; Scott Brown’s approval rating is underwater:
In the Public Policy Poll, voters were split on Shaheen’s job performance, with 47 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving.
Brown was “under water” in favorability, with 35 percent viewing him favorably and 49 percent unfavorably.
Scott Brown is only viewed favorable by 35% of the voters and yet this is who the establishment Republicans are going to foist upon the voters of New Hampshire, and why? Because they feel he has the best chance to win, and the reason they feel this way is based solely on name recognition.
I would ask the establishment Republicans one basic question; if name recognition is the key to winning, and the voters know Scott Brown and do not approve of him, how in hell does he have any chance of defeating an incumbent who should be vulnerable no matter how much money you throw his way?
The establishment Republicans, and Scott Brown, will try to spin this as good news claiming that he is close to Jeanne Shaheen in the poll despite the fact he has only been a candidate for about a week, but that is nothing but bullshit because the voters of New Hampshire have known he was going to be a candidate for months and he still has not gained any traction.
The establishment Republicans would be better off getting behind one of the lesser known candidates, Karen Testerman or Jim Rubens, in an attempt to help them gain the name recognition they so desperately need rather than supporting a Massachusetts retread who could not beat a woman who gamed the system by lying about her heritage, but they have made their decision and we are going to be stuck with it for better or worse.
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He could pull the Al Franken tactic and hide a computer, containing only votes for him, that will ‘happen to be found in the trunk of a car’ – if his count is down. Worked for Al! http://www.redstate.com/diary/martin_a_knight/2010/11/02/democrats-and-union-officials-miraculously-finding-lost-ballot-boxes-in-their-car-trunks/
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Funny how that works’ isn’t it? And even funnier that it only seems to work one way!
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Looks like one potential seat going down the tubes. Great.
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That is the way I see it as well. You can count on the Republicans screwing this up.
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I still say after this is all said and done, we will find that Brown’s primary donors are Shaheen supporters.they know none of us will vote for the guy, and we sure won’t vote for Shaheen, so how better to suppress the vote and ensure a win but to make sure he is the nominee?
it doesn’t help that browns primary supporter in the republican camp is “he’s the only one that can win” sununu. I would give parts of my anatomy if that guy and his whole family would stay out of politics forever.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that is part of what is going on here! And that is something I had not even considered.
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when the democrats come out with a new playbook, and it works, they ALL use it. the governors race in VA a few months back used a “spoiler” libertarian candidate that no libertarian had ever heard of, and his views were not anywhere close to that political group. but it split the republican vote and the democrat won.
expect that play to be used all over the country now.
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You are right about that, they are going to split the vote by basically hiring somebody to run as a third party to draw votes away from the Republicans and they are going to do it in every state if they can.
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