Poll: Rep. Wilson in dead heat with challenger

[brooklynite]

Source: USA Today

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is now in a dead heat with Democratic challenger Rob Miller after shouting "You lie!" during President Obama's health care speech Wednesday night, a new survey from Public Policy Polling shows. Wilson beat Miller 54-46 in 2008.

Wilson now has the backing of 43% of voters in his congressional district; Miller is supported by 44%. That's within the survey's margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

"In a matter of seconds Joe Wilson turned himself from a safe incumbent into one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country for 2010," Dean Debnam, Public Policy Polling's president, said in a statement.

Sixty-two percent of voters in the district said they disapproved of Wilson's outburst, while 29% approved. They were less sure of the veracity of President Obama's statement that prompted Wilson's outcry -- that the massive health care plan would not insure illegal immigrants.

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/09/poll-rep-wilson-in-dead-heat-with-challenger.html

[proud patriot]

1. sweet

[mdmc]

2. It would be too cool to see him lose

too cool..

[bobburgster]

3. Great news!!!

What's up with that jerk talking about not being "muzzled"? Saw his news conference....amazing how he can turn around his inappropriate behavior into a 'heroic' type claim that he won't be muzzled from speaking out on healthcare. God these people have elephant size balls to go along with their pea sized brains.

[customerserviceguy]

11. "Elephant size balls"

Ok, I had to Google that up, and came up with 4.4 lbs. apiece, size of a canteloupe.

I hate you for making me feel compelled to look that up! :spank: :P

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. LOVE IT. Poetic Justice at last

[jw456]

5. Yeah but

AP says Wilson has raised $700,000 so far and his opponent Rob Miller only $125,000 more. Support Miller at ActBlue--get it up from $825,000 to a million. How great to be able to say Democrats raised a million for Miller 48 hours after he yelled at the President.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Election still a long way off

so good that he's getting all this money now. That will give him the means to get his message out.

I try not to be a vengeful person, but this is one of the greatest examples of retribution I've ever seen.

K&R

[aquaman]

7. I live here....

Thankfully, he is not my representative. I can tell you that he represents a VERY conservative
district, many of the constituents think that he is a "hero" for saying what he did.

[AlinPA]

10. I have never been there, but it seems that the right winger will always win in that district,

no matter how much money the Democrat has. I say this just from reading about it. Hope I'm wrong.

[aquaman]

12. Many Republicans in that district run unopposed....

As Democrats feel that they have no chance of winning. I think that the chances of Wilson losing, is virtually none. If nothing else, he may get even more votes. Sad.

[Blacksheep214]

8. WTF is wrong with S. Carolina?

Graham, Wilson and Sanford, all douchebags, yet they turn down Stephen Colbert because he would make South Carolina politics into a joke?

You have got to be shitting me!

[Faygo Kid]

9. Don't forget Preston Books, caning Sen. Charles Sumner before the Civil War.

At one point, I thought about retirement in the winters to South Carolina. No way now. They are as nuts as Alabama and Oklahoma in their elected representatives - make that more.