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NY-Sen Poll, FL-Sen Rumblings

by: JeremiahTheMessiah

Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 9:41 PM EST


Marist
611 Registered Voters
MoE +/- 4%
Gillibrand (D-Inc.) 49%
King (R) 24%

The poll was taken on January 26th, 2009

http://www.maristpoll.marist.e...

Gillibrand looks set for re-election.  King will need to think he has a hell of a case to  make to New York voters if he is going to put himself out there and run.  
JeremiahTheMessiah :: NY-Sen Poll, FL-Sen Rumblings
Buchanan met with National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn yesterday to discuss a potential Senate campaign, and was escorted by the retiring Sen. Mel Martinez.  

Buchanan's biggest asset is his personal wealth: When he first ran for the House in 2006, he spent $5.45 million of his own money into the race.  He would be able to, at least partially, self-finance a Senate campaign.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/...

With people expecting Rubio and Mack to run, this could throw a wrench in the mix.  It could open up some hot territory for Democrats, seeing as FL-13 is only R+4, if third parties don't plague our chances.    
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NY-Sen Poll, FL-Sen Rumblings | 18 comments
Please get someone other than Christine Jennings to run there
I mean, she's cool and all, but voters don't seem to want to send her in particular to Congress.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
though she did win in 2006...

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She Pissed A Lot Of People Off
From that nonsense after the 2006 election when she kept insisting that she won, trying to get a recount or something like that when clearly all the votes were counted. The voters last November sent her a solid message of "get the hell out of here".
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I get what you're saying
And she shoulc have concede far sooner and focused on 2008.  But all the voters were certainly NOT counted.  In fact tend of thousands of votes simply vanished into thin air.  The 2006 FL-13 election makes FL 2000 and OH 2004 look like legitimate election in comparison.
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And not the 2004 Candidate either
The 2004 D candidate ran last year as an independent, destroying any chance for Jennings even though she also had no chance to win.  Let's get some fresh blood to take a shot here.
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The New York poll is most worrisome
for Governor Paterson himself. I could easily imagine a situation where Gillibrand wins and he loses.  
Paterson's in trouble
the unfortunate thing is talking to people back home, while his budget is part of the problem, the biggest complaint I hear about him is "he's annoying" and "he looks stupid"


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Issue is: who walks away
from a potentially fractious Republican primary? I like Paterson's chances against Rudy Giuliani, notwithstanding this poll.
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If Giuliani runs
the GOP will clear the field for him, he's his only hope and he's still quite popular in New York.

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Rudy is still behaving like a far-right republican
I heard him this morning when I briefly turned on Beck and he did nothign but badmouth Obama and all democrats in general.  He isn't going to get elected to dog catcher in New York these days.
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Oh and he also
Rudy also claimed that Franken and Dems are rigging the MN Senate election and that "activist judges" are refusing to count ten thousand or so legal ballots for Norm.  Whatever ya say Rudy...
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Watch how fast he pivots
when he announces his run for Governor.

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Good luck with that
He's given us more than one year's worth of outrageous quotes more reminiscint of someone wanting to represent Utah or Alabama than someone wishing to represent New York.  
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Exactly

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Unforuntely
no one has been paying attention.

Although his comment today about how Wall Street bonuses are a good thing is potentially destructive.

The only problem is...he's right, New York's economy does depend partially on millionaires spending money...it's just not a good thing that it does. THAT needs to change.  

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Correct, noone is paying attention NOW
What I meant was that he's given any NY Dem opponent more than enough ammo to completely destroy him in a 2010 campaign.  When you are reduced to a miserable failure of a Presidential candidate who has to resort to Rush, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity for attention you are done for in a state like New York.  New York electing Rudy statewide nowadays is the equivalent of Alabama electing someone like Ted Kennedy statewide.
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Mhm...
Buchanan's a second term congressman who bought his seat under dodgy circumstances.  If he gets in it only makes the GOP primary more entertaining for us.  We'd also probably do better against him than against Mack.
he also comes from the same area of the state
as Mack, possibly throwing a wrench in the whole circumstance. I expect Ric Keller to jump in too.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
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