Following the terror scare and loserman's defeat, there are two polls that are warning signals for liberals.
Montana Senate: Burns Bouncing Back
MT Senate:
Jon Tester: 47%(50%)
Conrad Burns: 47%(43%)
Tester's support among fellow Democrats has slipped from 90% to 84%. Burns now gets 14% of the vote from Democrats, up from 7% a month ago.
The race had been leaning towards the Democrats, but Rasmussen Reports now rates it as a toss up.
In Hawaii, DLC candidate Ed Case is in the strking distance to take out the liberal incumbent Akaka
in the primary.
Sen. Akaka 47%
Rep. Ed Case 45%
Hawaii's Senate seat will be decided on September 23--Primary Day--rather than November 8. That's when Democrats Daniel Akaka, the incumbent senator seeking his fourth full term, and U.S. Rep. Ed Case will square off for their party's nomination in November. And with a little more than a month to go in the primary battle, the contest is either candidate's to win.
Regardless of which candidate wins on September 23, it appears that the seat will remain safely in the Democrats' hands. Assuming Akaka is the party's candidate, 58% of voters surveyed prefer him to Republican Jerry Coffee (30%.) Should Case succeed in unseating Akaka, 63% say they'll vote for him over Coffee (21%.)
I still believe it's a huge mistake for democrats to push for Iraq withdrawl theme in the midterm election. Instead, they should push for a change theme, change in Iraq, change in domestic policy.
I am not convinced a call for timetable or withdrawl will help democrats to win election across the nation. If poll is still tight in MT before election, I expect Burns to pull off since the state leans GOP strongly.
Remember OK senate race in 2004? The poll was very tight, but the wingnut candidate crushed the democrat by double digits in the end.
Kossacks' obsession with pullout from Iraq will cost us dearly in the midterm election. It is a trap.