07/08/2002 Archived Entry: "Nevada nukes, TN primary; polling from TN & SD Senate races"
Crunch time for counting votes against Yucca, Senate's nuclear showdown, "He still must turn at least five of the nine senators from the Democratic caucus who voted for Yucca two years ago. The best prospects are Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Cleland (Ga.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Herb Kohl (Wis.) and presidential prospect John Edwards (N.C.)."
Republicans' tax vote could be election issue
More than 60 percent of the House votes for the bill were from Republicans. About $600 million of this year's tax package will be generated from a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax. The next highest tax increase in Tennessee raised $281 million and was enacted under former Republican Gov. Lamar Alexander in 1984, said state Comptroller John Morgan. All of that money was raised through a sales tax increase.
Democratic leaders are aware of the part Republicans have played in the history of Tennessee taxation. "Isn't it strange that the two largest tax increases were under Republican governors?" asked state Treasurer Steve Adams, a Democrat.
Those Republicans in TN are just going to get hammered in the GOP primary. New polling from the state:
The Bryant campaign released its own polling numbers July 3 that showed Mr. Bryant having closed to within 12 percentage points among likely Republican primary voters, with 37 percent to Mr. Alexander's 49 percent. In other polling, A Mason-Dixon poll gives Alexander a lead of 17 percentage points over U.S. Rep. Ed Bryant. For the General, in a Clement and Alexander race, the poll showed Alexander winning, 48%-37%, with 15% undecided. In a Clement and Bryant contest, the survey gave a very slight edge to Clement, 42%-40%, with 18% undecided.
And new polling from SD as well, showing a very tight race, with the debate over the number of undecided voter numbers:
Johnson holds a two-point lead, 49-47, over Thune in a poll conducted by Al Quinlan of Greenberg Quinlan of Washington, D.C. Johnson's March readings from Greenberg Quinlan showed him trailing Thune 51-46. Pollsters were in the field June 24-27, two days after the state Democratic and Republican conventions. The sample size was 850, with a 3.4 percent margin of error. In other polling, Jim Meader, a Sioux Falls pollster, conducted the only bipartisan survey the the candidates before the June primary. That polling showed Thune with a 46-42 lead.
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GOP under 50% in TN and Dems under 50% in SD...making both of them vulnerable. TN is in play...it probably will not gell till October.
Posted by G.C. Raj @ 07/08/2002 11:27 AM PST
Garbage from the quintessential Washington insider and GOP apologist Jules Whitcover. Perhaps he should look at the polls where more Republican Senate candidates are under 50% than Dems instead of running off his mouth.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/bal-op.witcover08jul08.column?coll=bal%2Dpe%2Dopinion
Posted by G.C. Raj @ 07/08/2002 06:12 PM PST
