GOP poll: embattled David Rivera trails Joe Garcia

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Monday, 10.01.12
GOP poll: embattled David Rivera trails Joe Garcia

One of the polls showing Rep. David Rivera down 10 points was conducted by a top-flight Republican polling firm.

By Marc Caputo And Manny Garcia
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Two separate polls from Republican and Democratic third-party groups have arrived at the same conclusion: Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera is losing his reelection effort.

Rivera, under separate federal criminal investigations into his personal and campaign finances, trails Democratic challenger Joe Garcia by nine percentage points in a Democratic poll and he’s behind by 10 points in the Republican survey — just outside the poll’s error margin.

Rivera’s campaign has produced its own survey showing he has an inside-the-error margin lead of four points.

The Republican survey is the newest and most eye-opening because it was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by a top-flight GOP polling firm with vast experience in Florida: McLaughlin & Associates.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/28/3025316/gop-poll-embattled-david-rivera.html#storylink=cpy

[apnu]

1. Wow! is FL flipping blue?

I checked in on Alan Grayson's numbers today, he's up big against Long (see: http://www.electionprojection.com/2012elections/florida_house_district_9_election.php)

Alan West is in the toilet. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/allen-west-poll_n_1928818.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

And now this. Man, the Tea Party is really falling appart huh?

[Judi Lynn]

2. DU'er "flamingdem" introduced this wild right-wing Florida story to DU'ers in Latin America forum:

DU'er "flamingdem" introduced this wild right-wing Florida story to DU'ers in the Latin America forum:

The Rep. David Rivera and Conservative "Dirty Harry" Bad Girl Ana Alliegro story grows

http://progreso-weekly.com/ini/index.php/home/our-pulse-florida/3436-miamis-dirty-ana-still-on-the-run

now with cool graphics! see below

Miami’s ‘Dirty Ana’ still on the run

By Alvaro F. Fernandez
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“Politics is rough and I play like it.” - Ana Alliegro

I am not exactly sure what Ana Alliegro meant by those words. But the more I read about the self-proclaimed “Republican Bad Girl,” the more I am convinced that David Rivera is sweating bricks. Because all evidence points to the fact that Alliegro makes Dirty Harry, the character in the old Clint Eastwood movie, look tame.

Two weeks after a strange disappearance Alliegro is still missing. Initially her mother, Guedy, told The Miami Herald that her daughter was fine, but said she didn’t know where she was. This past week Guedy’s tone seems to have changed. In another Herald article it was reported “that she has not heard from her daughter in two weeks and neither have other family members.” And Guedy was later quoted as saying, “I am worried. I know she is resting. We are praying for her.”

Alliegro is an important piece in a federal investigation into the Justin Lamar Sternad campaign. Sternad ran this past summer in Florida’s 26th congressional district in a bitter primary election won by Democrat Joe Garcia. The investigation is focused on tens of thousands of dollars, in cash, funneled into the Sternad campaign. Evidence seems to point to U.S. Rep. David Rivera as the source of the money.

The “Bad Girl’s” involvement? She served as Sternad’s campaign consultant. Strange considering she boasts of being a badass republican, was not paid for her work (at least it did not appear in campaign records), and with Sternad, she ran a democrat’s race. more at link



http://www.democraticunderground.com/11085738

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Video from DU'er Mika: "Florida Reporter Doused With Water By Rep. David Rivera's Rival's wife."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11085747

[hrmjustin]

3. good!