Tea Party Polls: Allen West, Joe Walsh Among Incumbents In Trouble, PPP Data Finds

[proud2BlibKansan]

Source: Huff Post

As the 2012 election calendar rolls toward its final week of campaigning, several Tea Party favorites find themselves in races that are too close for comfort.

A series of Public Policy Polling (PPP) surveys conducted from Oct. 25-26 and released on Sunday show four GOP freshmen -- Reps. Allen West (R-Fla.), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.) and Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) -- facing trouble in the polls. Veteran Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) is also in a battle for his electoral life.

PPP's survey of 631 likely voters in Florida's 18th congressional district shows West trailing Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy, 48 to 47 percent, with a 3.9 percent margin of error. The pair has engaged in a heated campaign, capped by a series of nasty ads attacking histories ranging from West's military record to Murphy's college arrest.

Walsh appears to be in the midst of an even more uphill battle. Of 500 likely voters in Illinois' 8th congressional district, 54 percent favored Democrat Tammy Duckworth, compared to 40 percent for Walsh, with a 4.4 percent margin of error. The Tea Party freshman turned heads in July when he accused Duckworth, a double-amputee Iraq War veteran, of not being a "true hero."

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[Change has come]

1. Great news!

[Coyotl]

35. Check out Nate Silver's probabilities on the Senate races.

90.9% chance of majority, 52.6 seats, and trending BLUER

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

[sheshe2]

2. In my Opinion It couldn't happen to more deserving men!!

[demosincebirth]

3. Lungren...ugh. Ran for Ca gov and Davis creamed him

[craigmatic]

4. Looks like fox is about to have a few more commentators.

[calimary]

25. ROFL! No kidding!

That's the new hideout, I guess.

[Warpy]

5. Oh, please let these sacks of woman hating shit be thrown out

I don't want much, honestly. I don't hold out for a socialist president. I don't expect Social Security eligibility to be lowered to 55 in my lifetime. I also don't expect national health insurance, although I do expect a few states to enact their own plans as for profit companies pull out of poorer areas once they're picked clean. I certainly don't want a pony. I'm too fat to ride one and have no place for it to live.

All I want is for all the teabaggers tossed into the garbage where they belong. I don't want perfection. I just want reason to prevail over empty slogans and blind bigotry.

[freshwest]

6. +1,000.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Warpy, you ain't warped

you're right on the money!

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Amen

[SoapBox]

11. Bravo Warpy

[AAO]

15. Teabaggerism must be committed to the dustbin of history.

[ChazInAz]

21. Be patient for a little while.

The Know-Nothings dissolved in their own poisonous bile after only a few years....these yokels will, too.

[AAO]

30. Do I have a choice? I'm not preparred to go shopping for AK-47's yet.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

44. Stupidi-TEA - anybody voting for this bunch of whack job tea baggers

There's also
dishonest-TEA- teabag politicians who know their whole movement is billionaire funded crap and push the agenda anyway
hostili-TEA - their idea of bipartisanship - see Cantor, Eric
Insani-TEA - tea bag politicians who actually believe the crap they're saying

[smirkymonkey]

36. +1000

[NCarolinawoman]

9. Oooh...I hope I hope.

Tammy Duckworth is a class act.

[spartan61]

10. I'll never understand how anyone

could even consider supporting Walsh or West. Talk about "the stupid." These two men are the epitome of stupid.

[mimi85]

19. Truth!

Agree X 1000! These two idiots literally drive me bonkers. They MUST lose!!

[madrchsod]

12. walsh is history.

he screwed his wife on the child support and the "true hero" finished any hope he could win.

[BlueMan Votes]

38. have you seen his new ads...?

one has his son saying what a great dad he was, and that they never wanted for anything as children, even though they weren't wealthy.

what a fucking scumbag that guy is.

[ffr]

13. I'd like it better if you and your family have voted.

That's the only poll that matters with me.

[lastlib]

14. I may be in serious trouble :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125197794

but it might be worth it! He!!, if Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock and Scott Brown all go down, I might do TWO juggling acts! Hope for a heat wave here so I don't freeze any, um, vital parts!

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Here's hoping for warm fall weather.

LOL

[lastlib]

20. taking donations for "earmuffs", JIC.......

Feel free to contribute....

[AAO]

31. Are you a man or a woman? (trying to imagine where you are putting those "earmuffs". LOL

[lastlib]

37. I am of the male persuasion....

...which may explain why I'm not getting any requests for the "undressed" dance in the streets. Or maybe people understand how "well" I dance......

[AAO]

39. Well a few of the female persuasion where cheering you on!

Maybe you should just give them a private showing in a nice warm room. How are you going to hold those earmuffs on to your balls??

[Sedona]

16. My Floridan mother "liked" Allen West on Facebook this morning.

He's begging for money. Jeez, I can't even bring myself to speak with her and my fundy wingnut sister until after the election.

They are voting the medicare i worked for all my life away.

[mwb970]

29. I would think that even the most loyal republicans would recognize West as too extreme.

I guess not.

[AAO]

32. Don't they need Medicare? Are they 1%ers? I know I can't retire until I'm 65 without health care.

[sarcasmo]

17. It would be an awesome day if West lost his seat.

[AAO]

33. I want to see him go all taliban at his concession speech. He just might meltdown on live TV!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

22. Hallelujah! nt

[TheNaimSadik]

23. Spam deleted by NRaleighLiberal (MIR Team)

[Joe Bacon]

24. It's Bachman I want to see thrown out.

She's the worst of the lot!

[Acornsouth]

26. when the extreme get to extreme

this is what you get when you go to the extreme right...a very sad excuse for representives and a more realistic view of where the party want to go (without those moderates involved)

[Stewland]

27. I second that motion.

Bachman is the darling of the tea bagging crowd. This statement may be true for both Michele and Marcus. One thing for sure they do bring about the strangest statements and are caricatures of the insanity that is today's Republican Party.

[Coyotl]

28. Rick Berg in ND is also sweating bullets now, as the Big Dog heads to Fargo

President Clinton will be in Fargo tomorrow with Heidi Heitkamp
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251187225

[AAO]

34. Zod help us, if we can make a nice dent in these teabaggers, it could signal the end

of their influence in congress. 2014 should flush most of the rest of them out. Maybe we can actually get somethings done.

[Odin2005]

41. Mr. Slum Lord is Going DOWN!!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Go (home) West!

Seriously, if he loses next week, I will dance the jigs of all jigs.

[BainsBane]

42. If only Bachmann were on that list

As well as Steve King and Louie Gohmert.

[and-justice-for-all]

43. Good! mentally deficient fuckers like them need to go!!!