Republicans Just Got Some Really Bad News In One Of The Reddest Of Red States

[babylonsister]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/republicans-just-got-really-bad-153455466.html

Sun, Oct 5, 2014, 5:28 PM EDT
Republicans Just Got Some Really Bad News In One Of The Reddest Of Red States
Business Insider
By Brett LoGiurato 5 hours ago


A few weeks after the national Republican Party moved in to revamp the campaign and begin an ad blitz aimed at saving incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts' job, a new poll shows him facing more of an uphill battle than ever against independent businessman Greg Orman.

The poll, from NBC News and Marist College, finds Orman leading Roberts 48-38 among likely voters. The NBC/Marist survey is better news for Orman than other recent polls, which have shown him with significant but less substantial single-digit leads.

The battle for control of the US Senate is coming down to six or seven crucial states — Colorado, Iowa, Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Kansas — and Kansas serves as the potential wild card. Roberts survived a primary challenge from a Tea Party candidate, but Orman has presented an even more daunting battle.

Roberts is viewed in a highly unfavorable light by Kansans. Just 37% of those surveyed in the poll said they view him favorably, compared with 47% who view him in an unfavorable light. Those respective numbers are 46-26 for Orman.

"He’s in a great deal of trouble out there," Marist pollster Lee Miringoff said of Roberts. "He’s got high negatives, his intensity of support is low, he’s losing independents by more than two to one. His to-do list is rather large in the remaining time before Election Day."

In the other closely watched race in Kansas, incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is down a single point to his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Paul Davis (44-43).

According to the NBC/Marist poll, Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan maintains a slight lead over Republican challenger Thom Tillis (44-40) in North Carolina. In Iowa, Republican Joni Ernst leads Democratic candidate Bruce Braley 44-42, which puts Braley in better shape than other surveys that have shown him down as much as six points.

[Purveyor]

1. Unless something major breaks, Michigan will remain DEM with Gary Peters taking over

for Carl Levin.

Polling this week has Peters up some 9pts over Terry Lind Land.

Sadly, the local statewide races are trending towards the GOP with the GOP governor, Attorney General and SOS polls showing GOP leads.

Oh hell of a 'ticket-split' State we have here.

[Politicalboi]

2. We still need more to go out and vote

What are those things called where a lot of people gather to be a part of some song or dance on a subway or mall? Why not have those at polling places, and then vote.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Flash mob?

I may be wrong, but I think that is what you are referring to.

[Major Hogwash]

3. Roberts may bounce back a little in the last month, but it's not going to be enough.

He's adios . . out of here.

I would be surprised if Brownback lost his race, though,

[Fred Sanders]

5. Something's up in America, if Kentucky and Georgia turn away from the shock and awe media ad

blitz funded by the Kochs, maybe the folks had enough of the mass propaganda they are being assaulted with.

Maybe now the Republican bid to deny voters their basic democratic right to cast one ballot each has not gone unnoticed.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

15. "blitz funded by the Kochs,"

I think the law of diminishing returns is kicking in, after you spend so much money trying to buy an election you hit a stone wall and it stops working!

[Warpy]

6. Yes, please!

I just hope Kansans are really waking up to the utter idiocy that is Republican dogma since tax cuts to the Koch boys have resulted in nearly bankrupting the state. When it comes down to selling sex toys to pay the bills, you know something has been seriously mismanaged.

[Cha]

7. Mahalo, babylonsistah~ Come on Dems!

[MoonRiver]

8. This is so awesome!

I literally cannot WAIT to vote for Orman and Davis!

[ZombieHorde]

9. Fewer Republicans is cool with me.

I hope they lose big.

[cstanleytech]

13. Ya but we need to really win even more at the state level for the next 10 years or the

republicans will continue their gerrymandering ways which makes it difficult to unseat them at the federal level because they are able to manipulate the districts to give themselves and unfair advantage.

[freshwest]

16. +1

[J_J_]

10. major Koch money ads everywhere for Sullivan in Alaska

They think they can buy this one which I don't think is really working.

But they can use ads to manufacture consent, then steal the election with diebold accuvote machines.

No exit polls in Alaska, no way of knowing who really wins...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Some of these guys could piss in a baby carriage and get elected....

ANYONE with an "R" to stop the "Demoncrats".

[J_J_]

18. Don Young just confessed to killing someone

Don Young to Dem challenger Forrest Dunbar
"Don’t you ever touch me. Don’t ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead"



Since that staffer that recently touched Don Young and had his arm twisted is still alive, I assume someone else has touched him since then and he killed them.

Everyone is embarrassed by Don Young, wants him gone at least 3 elections ago...but in Alaska, our paper ballots are counted by diebold accuvote machines so I expect him to 'win' again.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. brownback losing would be sweet!

[WillyT]

14. K & R !!!

[AnalystInParadise]

17. Well

While I want to believe Roberts is in trouble, the largest sample size (from the same period as your poll) shows a tie.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ks/kansas_senate_roberts_vs_orman-5216.html

[KansDem]

19. I'll never understand how someone who makes his home in Virginia...

...can represent Kansas in the US Senate.

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) is registered to vote at the address of Dodge City supporters he pays rent to and stays with when he is in town, he acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times published Friday. The revelation is a new and potentially damaging twist in the Kansas Senate race, where Roberts faces a long-shot tea party challenger.

Roberts told the paper that when he is in the area, he stays with a pair of longtime supporters and donors in a house on a country club golf course in Dodge City. Here's more from the Times's Jonathan Martin:

In an interview, the three-term senator acknowledged that he did not have a home of his own in Kansas. The house on a country club golf course that he lists as his voting address belongs to two longtime supporters and donors — C. Duane and Phyllis Ross — and he says he stays with them when he is in the area. He established his voting address there the day before his challenger, Milton Wolf, announced his candidacy last fall, arguing that Mr. Roberts was out of touch with his High Plains roots.

“I have full access to the recliner,” the senator joked. Turning serious, he added, “Nobody knows the state better than I do.”

Roberts recently switched his voting address from a Dodge City property he owns and has long leased to others to the house on the golf course, where he pays $300 a month to stay at when he is in Dodge City, the story says. A long-serving member of Congress, Roberts and his wife own a home in northern Virginia.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/07/pat-roberts-doesnt-have-his-own-home-in-kansas/

And who in the Hell can rent a home on a golf course for $300 a month!