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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject: Grayson Leads in REPUBLICAN Primary Polling |
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Article here.
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Republicans like a politician who stands up for what he believes -- even if he believes the Republican Party is populated by a bunch of "knuckle-dragging Neanderthals."
The candidate leading the Florida GOP primary to determine who will take on Rep. Alan Grayson, the Democrat who represents the Orlando-based district, is none other than Grayson himself, according to a poll paid for by his campaign. Grayson is a freshman congressman who has drawn scorn from the GOP and has quickly built a nationwide following of progressives.
The poll has Grayson leading the 13 Republicans -- among Republicans -- with 27.8 percent of the vote. The congressman who mocked the GOP health care plan by saying that it amounts to telling people not to get sick and if they do, to die quickly, received more support than all of the Republican candidates combined.
No GOP candidate scored above 3.7 percent; 57.7 percent said they were undecided. Grayson did particularly well with women, undercutting the notion that referring to a Washington lobbyist as a "K Street *beep*" would turn female voters away. (Grayson later apologized for the word choice.)
The poll was conducted on Feb. 26th. There were 324 respondents, all registered Republicans in Florida's eighth district. The poll was conducted by Middleton Market Research.
Naturally, the national GOP establishment dismissed the results -- "This is the most bogus thing I've ever seen in my life," said Andy Ser�, Regional Press Secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Grayson told HuffPost that some of the support comes from Republicans who appreciate that he speaks his mind, while some is due to his far-superior name recognition. But the poll also found at least one area where Republican voters thought favorably of him.
In 2009, Grayson, who carries a copy of the Constitution with him, passed a resolution calling on schools to teach the document for one week in September each year.
Over half of the Republicans polled said that they were more likely to vote for Grayson because of the resolution. He has distributed tens of thousands of copies of the Constitution throughout the district, including one to each high school senior. This September, he said, he plans to go to high schools and teach the Constitution personally in the district. |
Whether this is legitimate or not, it's pretty funny. Alan Grayson may not be perfect, but he's by far one of the best members of the House, and I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few Republicans genuinely did think he was the best they could hope for. His attacks on the Federal Reserve and stance on the bank bailouts alone put him closer to genuine economic conservativism than the overwhelming majority of Republican politicians. That's not to say he's a fiscal conservative -- he's not -- just that the Republicans are generally even less fiscally conservative. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Let's just hope there is some basis in reality for this. If so, it indicates an even greater dissatisfaction - nay, disgust - with the status quo.
Of course, we must also hope that Grayson himself does not at some point capitulate to pressure from the elites, sells out, or gets threatened into changing his positions. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| Of course, we must also hope that Grayson himself does not at some point capitulate to pressure from the elites, sells out, or gets threatened into changing his positions. |
Just so, the integrity of a political representative is constantly challenged, and quality representation in the past doesn't mean his constituents can rest easily in the future. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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geldedgoat
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm a Democrat. I needed Democrats to vote in order to win. |
That kind of attitude is probably what made it so easy to stir up so much opposition. If you're goal is to be just another adversarially partisan politician, at least learn how to be diplomatic about it. |
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Fox
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So did Russ Feingold, one of the few reasonable, principled politicians in America. And he lost it to a buffoon who was handed a can't-fail business opportunity by his father in law and has since pretended to be an entrepreneur who built himself from the ground up with hard work. What a great person to have representing my home state. |
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