Meant to share this yesterday. Lachlan McIntosh of the Brad Hutto campaign brought this chart to my attention, with the commentary:
According to this CBS New, York Times poll of all the US Senate races this year, Lindsey Graham is the weakest Republican incumbent in the nation. He’s getting just 42% of the vote.
In a quick glance, that appears to be the case. Of course, what is greeted as good news by one Democratic challenger is pretty lousy news for Democrats nationally. Lots of Democrats would give anything to have Graham’s 42 percent. Look at poor Mary Landrieu, trailing at 36 percent!
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If Graham’s the weakest incumbent the Republicans have in the Senate, I’d say that this will be a groundswell election. Obama may have tough time getting any legislation passed in the next congress.
That’s what the pen and phone are for, bro.
I don’t think Obama is capable of sitting down with Republicans and cutting a deal. Clinton could do it. Actually, he *did* it.
Obama? No way. If the Senate flips to GOP control, Obama isn’t going to work with them. It’s just not in his skill set.
Re what Silence said about “groundswell election”…
Yeah, I think that’s the lesson to be drawn here. It’s not so much that Graham is weak as that Republicans nationwide are strong…
But the government shutdown and Ted Cruz destroyed the republican party. Didn’t you read the papers?
And TEA party! Let’s party like it’s 1994!
Lindsey at least tries to work across the aisle in a non-election year.
BTW. Good sources tell me that evangelicals are in charge of the House of Representatives. That could be part of our problem. As an evangelical, I think I can say that. I’ve often said I’d rather have a good pagan heart surgeon work on me than a mediocre fellow evangelical. The same may apply to politics.
And Brad, this has nothing to do with this thread, but I’ve been gone for a long time — still, you haven’t asked for any joke material for a while, right? In case you need some, I”m passing Larry’s on. Maybe some bad puns will be of use to you:
The one who invented the door knocker got a No-bell prize.
No one knew she had a dental implant until it came out in a conversation.
I wrote a novel about a fellow who had a small garden. It didn’t have much of a plot.
The patron saint of poverty is St. Nickeless.
What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.)
Why did the capacitor kiss the diode? He just couldn’t resistor.
The roundest knight at king Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.
Yesterday I accidentally swallowed food coloring. The doctor says I’m OK, but I feel like I’ve dyed a little inside.
I thought she had PMS, but she was just ovary acting.
I used to be addicted to soap, but I’m clean now.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
Sleeping comes so naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed.
What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine.
Need an ark to save two of every animal? I noah guy.
I was going to buy a book on phobias, but I was afraid it wouldn’t help me.
Did you hear about the midget fortune teller who escaped from the custody of the Columbia Police Department?
It was a small medium at large.
I wrote a book about the headaches I got when eating wheat. I called it “My Grain”.