Survey shows: McCaskill's in trouble
Yael T. AbouhalkahIt’s early, it’s from one poll and the result might be expected after a bitter GOP primary caught the public’s attention. But it’s still not great news for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill:
The Democratic incumbent badly trails her Republican opponent, Todd Akin, in the new Survey USA report (courtesy of NewsChannel 5 in St. Louis).
The 51-40 margin is pretty impressive statewide.
Heck, that’s pretty close to the 51-37 margin of potential victory that Democrat incumbent Jay Nixon holds over the GOP’s Dave Spence.
And Nixon has been considered a virtual shoo-in to win his second term for months.
However, McCaskill and her supporters won’t despair because of the early poll results. Nor should they.
A Missouri Scout poll from last week had Akin with only a 48-47 percent lead.
Plus, most people statewide don’t know Todd Akin and his ultra-conservative views on issues.
So McCaskill and her allies already have started efforts to spread the word.
Plus there’s this: While Missouri has been put safely in the Mitt Romney camp by many pollsters and so-called experts, the Survey USA result showed a narrow 45-44 lead for Romney over President Barack Obama.
Plus, lots of Republican voters will cross the ballot and vote for Nixon, the survey showed.
So McCaskill somehow has to get her base to turn out big time, appeal to the independents as much as she can, and even win a few of the Republicans scared about Akin’s political tendencies.
Voila: Victory in November.
But it won’t be easy.
Mark Hastert
9 months, 1 week agoShoulda paid those property taxes on time….still her anti earmark stand compared to Aikens might win her a few extra supported. It’s hard to be a Tea Party anti spender and an earmark sugar daddy all at the same time.
Phil Cardarella
9 months, 1 week agoMcCaskill needs to get Akin out more. Maybe send him door to door.
Steven Fetter
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9 months, 1 week agoAs Democrats go, McCaskill is tolerable to me. Harry Reid, as majority leader, is not.
Hence, when it doubt, vote em out.
Brad Hampshire
9 months, 1 week agoClaire has been a rubber stamp for all things 0bama, therefore she needs to go.
Phil Cardarella
9 months, 1 week agoSeriously, it would be interesting to se the actual poll & how it was conducted.
Much as I would like to think that Jay — with all his faults — will win by 14 points and even sweep in a Democrat legislarure on his coat-tails, I suspect that is unlikely. He will win, but probably 52-48.
Nor do I think that Missourians who are still reasonably closely divided on the Presidential race (one that im 2008 turned out to be surprisingly close here) have somehow decided en masse to embrace an old, white, male rightwinger as their new hero. I suspect that Claire will squeek by.
Kevin Sheely
9 months, 1 week agoMany Missouri Democrats are disgusted and appalled by our president and his rubberstamp Claire McCaskill who have given us 4 years of trillion+ deficits with nothing to show for it. Our country is suffering through 8.3% unemployment while the Obama ‘jobs council’ hasn’t held a single meeting since January. Our department of AGRICULTURE is busy promoting ‘meatless mondays’ and producing spanish language TV ads to try and get more people to sign up for food stamps. The 2,700-page-long mess of new taxes, mandates, and government legalese known as Obamacare will make our healthcare system worse for everybody.
Nixon remains the favorite because he has disavowed much of this agenda. Akin is the favorite because he will work to undo the damage.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agoAll MO people need to know about Air Claire is 0’care=YES, porkulus=YES. Just like the big 0’s “achievements” of unemployment at 8%+ for 42 months, 5 TRILLION of new debt & no budget for over 1,200 days.
Yep, these two libs need to be reelected, NOT.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agonice racist touch phil… you libs always revert to that, don’t you?
Kent Mueller
9 months, 1 week agoMark, can you say that an earmark increases spending? Or, is it a determinant as to where already appropriated money will be spent. Therefore, it would have been spent regardless of who got the earmark.
Your thoughts?
Phil Cardarella
9 months, 1 week agoGH:
Describing a GOP candidate for any office in Missouri as white and male is neither racist nor sexist.
It is merely redundent and semi-redundent.
Describing him as rightwing? That is just charitable and diplomatic.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agoCheck phil… did they “teach” you that in lawyer school?
You libs are getting tiresome with your rants against we old white people, but that’s your mo, so what else would I expect?
Kent Mueller
9 months, 1 week agoPhil didn’t answer my question on earmarks.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agoAnd you are surprised Kent?
Kent Mueller
9 months, 1 week agoGeorge, do you think Phil knows that the earmark system, flawed as it may be, does not increase spending? That it is a process that determines where appropriated money is spent?
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agoI think phil is grasping for any straw that seems capable of working. He knows obama cannot run on his record, so phil is joining the other obama lovers to denigrate R&R. He also knows air claire is toast, but is mouthing the talking points that “it will be close and she will win”. If she wins reelection I, on Nov 7, will publicly apologize to the great oracle phil. I expect him to do the same if(when) she gets her butt beat!
I am sure he knows what earmarks accomplish, but it does not fit into his “story” today. So, as a lawyer, he neither talks about it nor acknowledges what you said….. typical lib caught in a trap of her/his own making.
Mark Hastert
9 months, 1 week ago“Mark, can you say that an earmark increases spending?”
Well ‘Ol pal-o-mine. I’d say a dollar out the door is a dollar spent. I’d say I wish I had a congressman who earmark a few for me. I’d say an earmark is a giveaway, a no-bid, thank you to a “deserving constituent”. I’d say I’d like to get me some of that!!!! Yeah Baby! It could “accomplish” an awful lot for me!!!
I’d say that damn McCaskill won’t play ball.
Kevin Sheely
9 months, 1 week agoStill trying to figure out why I’m supposed to be tied up in knots when my elected representative to the government has a say in how my governmnent spends money… If they don’t direct the spending then who does? Some out-to-lunch bureaucrat I suppose.
Kent Mueller
9 months, 1 week agoMark, you are being a deceitful when you say stuff like that. If someone only read your writings they would think only Republicans used earmarks. Half the state of West Virginia was built with earmarks from just one Democrat. Now that’s for the Byrd’s, huh?
And you danced around it, but yes, all money spent with an earmark was going to be spent anyway. Case closed
Your accusation of channeling money failed to include Solyndra calling the White House the Bank of Washington. Didn’t they get the memo not to put their true feelings in emails? lolololololol
Timothy Keith Gatton
9 months, 1 week agoI am glad McCaskill supports Obama’s policies. If we still had a democratic lead house are unemployment rate would be much lower. If the government jobs bill passed which would have given local governments money to keep teachers and firefighters, etc employed we would have an unemployment rate that is almost a percentage point lower. what people need to understand is that the government has to spend money in a recession to keep the economy afloat. It really wouldn’t be that big of a deal if we didn’t have a hot head funding expensive wars as Obama’s predecessor.
Kent Mueller
9 months agoTimothy, Keynes is dead. He wasn’t right even when he was alive.
And you would brag about unemployment being over 7%? Wow.