Chris Murphy
Ungodly amounts of
personal wealth has got Republican Linda McMahon, former wrestling mogul and current candidate for the open Senate seat in Connecticut, where she is today. Running for Senate, and
plastering the airwaves with attack ads against Democrat Chris Murphy. The ads have helped. Where
Murphy led her handily in head-to-head polling against her before she won her primary, she's now edged her way up to a slight lead in a
Quinnipiac poll released today.
Connecticut likely voters put Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon on the right side of a 49 - 46 percent too-close-to-call U.S. Senate race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. [...]
In today's survey, McMahon's 54 - 42 percent lead among men swamps Murphy's small 50 - 46 percent lead among women. McMahon leads 88 - 10 percent among Republicans and 55 - 40 percent among independent voters, while Murphy takes Democrats 82 - 16 percent.
Just four percent of voters in this poll are undecided, making the race really that close. Quinnipiac's director Douglas Schwartz spoke with the
Hartford Courant about the poll,
stressing that McMahon's money on redefining her own image and trashing Murphy has helped drive her favorables up, a venture spent about $64 million since 2009.
Blanketing the airwaves is potentially a double-edged sword for McMahon, with 42 percent of voters finding her ads annoying. It also plays in to the emerging campaign issue of her personal wealth, and her support for economic policies that will help her kind more than the rest of us. Murphy points out that McMahon would be the richest senator if she were elected, while he'd be the poorest. It's a contrast that works when the top of the Republican ticket is another multi-millionaire, and a tax-dodging one at that.
But Murphy will need lots of grassroots and small donor donations to be able to make that case effectively. He certainly can't compete financially against her personal fortune, so he has to do with with grassroots money, and with on-the-ground volunteers. You can help.
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