POLL: Blumenthal Holds Huge Leads (31+ points) in Senate Race

[jefferson_dem]

Blumenthal Holds Huge Leads in Senate Race

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Connecticut finds Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) leading all three of the Republicans in the U.S. race by at least 30 points.

Blumenthal leads Rob Simmons, 59% to 28%, tops Linda McMahon, 60% to 28%, and beats Peter Schiff, 63% to 23%.

Analysis: "Blumenthal is unusually popular, especially in hyper partisan times when voters like few politicians. 59% have a favorable opinion of him to just 19% who see him negatively. It's no surprise that he's liked by 71% of Democrats and 60% of independents, but even Republicans view him favorably by a 37/35 margin. It doesn't take a lot of hands to count the number of Democratic politicians with positive numbers among GOP voters these days... It would take an epic collapse for him not to be Connecticut's next Senator."

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[Deep13]

1. That's good. nt

[BlooInBloo]

2. One problem, solved.

On to the brazillion others.

[Fire1]

16. Hey Bloo!!! What up!!! n/t

[BeyondGeography]

3. Nice save for the D's by the hated Rahm Emanuel and all the other White House sellouts

:sarcasm:

[Pirate Smile]

5. LOL

[DFW]

4. That's one Senate seat we hold on to

North Dakota is shakier, although for a red state, they have elected a whole lot of Democrats to the Senate.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Weird, isn't it?

Can somebody from ND explain this anomoly? The state has gone Republican in Presidential Elections in all but 5 campaigns, but they haven't had a Republican Senator in more than twenty years.

[DFW]

8. Must be the Tip O'Neill principle

"All politics are local." I know Kent Conrad is really popular in North Dakota. I know nothing about Dorgan. I also
know nothing about the Republican candidate they defeated to get into office, but to lose in North Dakota, they must
have been pretty off the wall. Also, North Dakota is a largely agricultural state with environmental issues such as
the flooding at Grand Forks. If the Democratic candidates for Senate talk enough about those issues and they hit home
with enough of the people there, maybe that's what it takes to keep a Senate seat. Kent Conrad was always a budget
hawk, and that sat well with the conservatives up there well before he ever was elected to the US Senate. He also
happens to be one hell of a nice guy, and I'll bet he come across really well when campaigning.

[shotten99]

7. Smiling ear to ear!

[WI_DEM]

9. Bottom line is that Dodd was an almost sure loser while Blumenthal is an almost sure winner

the bad news is ND, but polls showed that we might have lost this one even with the incumbant.

[Arkana]

10. Is Blumenthal running? If he does he'll win easily and we can exhale.

[jefferson_dem]

11. Yup.

He announced his intentions to run this am.

[Arkana]

12. Fan-damn-tastic.

Now if we pick up Kit Bond's seat in MO (Robin Carnahan), it'll offset Reid getting his ass kicked in NV. Personally, I won't be sorry to see the back of him.

[LovinLife]

13. Oh, this guy is a dem? I saw him on MSNBC and turned the channel, becuz he just looked like a

republican to me for some reason. Now this makes sense. Hopefully he can keep the seat.

[bigwillq]

14. Did you bother

to listen to anything he had to say? :shrug:

[CTyankee]

15. I can personally assure you that he is not.

Dick Blumenthal is a bona fide progressive, consumer advocate, supporter of a woman's right to choose...great guy...

[jefferson_dem]

17. Hey CTyankee...

I saw a report that Blumenthal running in '10 clears a path for Chris Murphy to take on Lieberman in 2012. What's your take on Murphy? All I know is he beat Nancy Johnson and has been described as a "rising star".

[CTyankee]

18. Don't know too much about Murphy, but I did hear him on NPR recently

and he was great, very knowledgeable and very eloquent. I like him a lot and I do think he is a rising star.

Boy, a team of Blumenthal and Murphy would be heaven on earth. Be still, my beating heart!

[karynnj]

19. Well, you would deserve that team

after the dozen years with the "bad" Lieberman (2001 - 2012). CT deserves something for that.

[CTyankee]

20. I just hope our state can contribute two outstanding progressive Senators for this country.

I want Joe Lieberman to be nothing more than a blip on the screen, and then gone, when a new, progressive era dawns in CT over the next few years. We are very proud of our status as progenitors of the right to privacy (Griswold) and our wonderful state supreme court ruling (strongest in the nation) on gay marriage to stand in stark relief to the backward, retrograde politics of some of our country. I really love living in CT...

[Cha]

21. If he wins..Blumenthal will put lieberman to even

more shame!

[cascadiance]

22. With Connecticut now using public campaign financing, THAT should be a big issue in this race!

Need to put pressure on Blumenthal to be an advocate of this within the Senate at a federal level as part of his agenda if he's elected.

If there is evidence that show people are seeing decent effects from public campaign financing for Connecticut races, then perhaps this issue can be used more strongly than in other states where either there is no public campaign financing, or an incumbent that might already be set in their ways and harder to push them becoming an advocate.

Blumenthal perhaps could be challenged to become an "expert" advocate in the Senate if he can be well informed as to how well it works within his state.

[Cherchez la Femme]

23. After many attack ads

if LIEberman still hasn't closed the gap, watch Whinin' Joe switch, finally, to the Repuklican party.

[CTyankee]

24. great idea. That way the pubs will be stuck with the most reviled

elected official from or in CT since John Rowland. A decent, even moderately progressive Dem, such as Chris Murphy (who is attractive on so many levels), could beat a despised (now) Republican. So let the pubs have him...they will be sorry.