"Democrats Just Got Some Horrible News From New Polls"

[applegrove]

Democrats Just Got Some Horrible News From New Polls

By Brett LoGiurato at Business Insider

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/democrats-just-got-horrible-news-222555584.html

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The Fox News poll puts Republicans ahead in five key states:

•Alaska: Republican Dan Sullivan leads incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, 44-40.
•Arkansas: Republican US Rep. Tom Cotton leads incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, 46-39.
•Colorado: Republican US Rep. Cory Gardner leads incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, 43-37.
•Kentucky: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leads Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, 45-41.
•Kansas: Incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Roberts leads Independent challenger Greg Orman, 44-39. In the CNN poll, Roberts led 49-48. This is a swing from most other recent polls that have shown Orman with an advantage.




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[applegrove]

1. It is faux news. But still. The youth have got to get out and vote.

[yeoman6987]

6. I think polls are going to go back and forth from here on out

I take solise in the fact that polls were all over the place and towards the end ahead for Republicans. And then reality hit and the right party one. The Democratic Party! I predict the same.

[AverageJoe90]

2. It's a FOX News poll.

BTW, there's at least one poll that puts Alison Grimes ahead of Mitch McConnell now.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/06/alison-lundergan-grimes-surges-kentucky-leads-mcconnell-poll.html

[applegrove]

3. Good. I still want to wake up the electorate. Particularly the young. Make

them interested in the election. Cause they have a huge stake in it.

[elleng]

4. Consider the source.

[MohRokTah]

5. Fox.

I'm sure they "unskewed" their data like they did in 2012.

They had Romney winning by comfortable margins in late October of 2012.

[liberal N proud]

7. Fox News poll?

Is this what we call credibal now?

[With whom]

8. The boss is on vacation -

The boss is on vacation -

He loves Faux Snooze. He loves push polls.

He gets lots and lots of calls asking for support of (R)idiculous efforts.

I, on the other hand, am having a wonderful time telling those callers to put me on all of their do-not-call lists! The phone is already ringing less and less.

[procon]

9. OK, its a Fox News poll and there's a

"sampling error of plus or minus 3.5" which translates to mostly a "meh" for me.

[onecaliberal]

10. Fix news predicted mittens by a landslide.

Not getting complacent whatsoever but give me a break

[KansDem]

13. I remember that!

[bigdarryl]

11. I'm to the point where I don't even pay any attention to the polling favorable or not

No fucking way Roberts is leading by 5 points in only a matter of three days after Orman was up 10 points.Daily Kos founder Marko was right polling is erratic this year

[kentuck]

12. I notice that Colorado had 20% undecided??

And the other states have 15%-16% average undecideds?? Who do those folks vote for??

[KansDem]

14. I don't believe the Kansas poll...

I'll go with Public Policy Polling--

Raleigh, N.C. – Our new Kansas survey continues to find Greg Orman in the lead for US Senate- and that Orman's lead could expand further if Chad Taylor is able to get off the ballot. Orman leads with 41% to 34% for Pat Roberts, 6% for Taylor, and 4% for Libertarian Randall Batson. But if Taylor supporters had to choose between Orman and Roberts, they'd take Orman by a 67/16 spread. That's enough to push Orman up to a double digit lead in a head to head match up with Roberts, at 46/36.

The big story in this race continues to be Roberts' unpopularity. Only 29% of voters approve of the job he's doing to 46% who disapprove. Those numbers have barely budged from when he posted a 27/44 spread last month. Roberts continues to be plagued by his residence issues- only 29% of voters think he considers Kansas to be his home, compared to 53% who think it's Washington DC.

Despite their current support of Orman, 49% of Kansans still want a US Senate that is controlled by the Republicans to only 39% who want one controlled by the Democrats. Right now only 62% of people who want a GOP controlled Senate say they're going to vote for Roberts. If he can effectively nationalize the race- Barack Obama has a 33/58 approval rating in the state- and get those folks who want GOP control to cast their votes for him Roberts will find himself in a much better place.

--more--
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/pat-roberts/

And Taylor(D) has withdrawn. Yes, the poll is two weeks old but I've been following this race and Roberts is in trouble.

[pstokely]

15. GOTV wins elections, not polling

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