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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: Snowe Vulnerable to Primary Challenge
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com: ME Poll: Snowe Vulnerable To Conservative Challenge
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No room for moderates in GOP- it's just a matter of time for Olympia Snowe to leave the party of Hatred & Bigotry http://tinyurl.com/yhq7n55 25 days ago |
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In #Maine, it appears Dems give Olympia Snowe higher ratings than ppl in her own party. http://bit.ly/44SH0R #tcot #ocra 25 days ago |
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Snowe's chances as a Republican don't look so bright, showing her losing 2 "generic tea bagger" 60% - 40%. http://bit.ly/44SH0R 25 days ago |
Snowe Vulnerable to Primary Challenge
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Public Policy Polling suggests Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) "could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican." ...
ME Poll: Snowe Vulnerable To Conservative Challenge
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
A new survey from Public Policy Polling (D) tested Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) against a generic conservative challenger in 2012. The result: the moderate may not survive such a fight. 2012 Primary Election Matchup Conservative Challenger 59 Snowe 31 Not Sure 10 Snowe boasts a strong approval rating among the larger electorate, 51 percent vs. 36 percent who disapprove. But, PPP says: "Snowe's numbers are steady with independents but down with both Democrats and Republicans compared to three weeks ago, an indication of the perilous political position she finds herself in. ...
Snowefall
The Political Carnival —
... Snowe is falling: Public Policy Polling suggests Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) "could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican." "There are now more folks in her party who disapprove than approve of Snowe's job performance. 46% of GOP voters think she's doing a bad job to 40% who give her good marks." Against a generic conservative primary challenger, Snowe would lose 59% to 31%. Maybe the new Tea Party could open up offices in ...
Big tent party update.
INSTAPUTZ —
Snowe to be Scozzafava'd? It looks like Olympia Snowe could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican. There are now more folks in her party who disapprove than approve of Snowe's job performance. 46% of GOP voters think she's doing a bad job to 40% who give her good marks.The teabaggers won't rest until literally the entire Republican party is south of the Mason-Dixon. ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — TEABAG MANIA IN MAINE? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT There's a fair amount of attention being paid right now to this poll: It looks like Olympia Snowe could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican. ... Asked how they would vote in a primary contest between Snowe and a more conservative challenger, just 31% of likely Republican voters say they would pick Snowe while 59% say they would go for the conservative alternative.... But a word of caution for those ready to celebrate the GOP's ...
Poll: Snowe would lose GOP primary to generic conservative
Daily Kos —
... , a new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that by a 2:1 margin, Maine Republicans would back a conservative challenger to Olympia Snowe: ...
Maine Republicans Want Conservative Challenger to Snowe
Matthew Yglesias —
... This Public Policy Polling survey of Maine isn’t all that surprising: She has a 46/40 disapproval/approval rating from state Republicans. By a whopping 27 points, those same Republicans say they’d back a “conservative challenger” to Snowe in the 2012 GOP primary. Voters who picked the McCain-Palin ticket in 2008 and self-identified conservatives all oppose Snowe and want a challenger; basically everyone else in the state has a more positive view of Snowe, the poll found. ...
Polls, Polls, Polls: Snowe In Trouble in Maine; Obama Hurt Deeds; ObamaCare Slips Eleven Points (!) in Gallup
Ace of Spades HQ —
Polls, Polls, Polls: Snowe In Trouble in Maine; Obama Hurt Deeds; ObamaCare Slips Eleven Points (!) in Gallup Rounding up the polls that were already rounded up at Hot Air: 46% of Maine GOPers disapprove of Olympia Snowe, while only 40% support her. And 59% of Maine GOPers would chose a "more conservative alternative" in a primary contest. Only 31% would stick with Snowe. The PPP poll blog speculates that if Snowe is to continue in office, she'll have to do so as an Independent. For those who can't get enough of the "shoot the RINOs" stuff: Yeah, I happen to agree, this is a ...
SSP Daily Digest: 11/10 (Part I)
Swing State Project —
... ? ME-Sen: These numbers might be alarming for Olympia Snowe if there was more of a Republican bench in Maine: PPP finds that her approval rating among Republicans is down to 40/46, and Republicans would opt for a more conservative alternative in a hypothetical 2012 primary, 59-31. Snowe has 64% approval among all liberals and moderates, but even in Maine, 68% of GOPers identify as conservatives. Hopefully the Club for Growth already has these numbers and are rubbing their hands together gleefully, which can only serve to drive her further into our camp. ...
Olympia Snowe will join Democratic Senate caucus in, at the most, 945 days
Open Left - Front Page —
At the absolute latest, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe will join the Senate Democratic caucus by Tuesday, June 12, 2012. She may not actually register as a Democrat, but she will start caucusing with Democrats by that date--or even earlier. Here is why:
Snowe is up for re-election in 2012.
The Maine primary is held on the second Tuesday in June. So, in 2012, this means June 12th.
Snowe is losing to a generic conservative primary challenger 59%-31%, among likely Republican voters.
Maine has a closed primary system, meaning ...
Will Olympia Snowe get Scozzafava'd?
Ezra Klein —
... New polling out of Maine shows that a solid 59 percent of likely Republican voters would back a primary challenge to Olympia Snowe. "This means that when you’re thinking about whether Snowe will support a bill or not, the issue ultimately comes down to not triggers versus non-triggers, or employer mandates versus free rider fees, but whether Snowe wants to remain a Republican or not," ...
Scozzafava: RINOs of the world, unite!
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... to wrangle a book deal about how the “conservative freak show” or whatever silenced your dissent. Be sure to omit the part where you took $900,000 of the party’s money before endorsing the Democrat. Or set yourself up as the anti-Palin, willing and able to comment on her alleged “extremism” whenever the media needs you to. One could live comfortably that way, I’d imagine. Speaking of influential RINOs, here’s the obligatory link to PPP’s poll of Maine Republicans confirming that they pretty much hate Olympia Snowe . Her overall approval rating is fine — 51/36 — but among ...
11/11: Snowed In
Blogometer —
November 11, 2009 11/11: Snowed In On a relatively quiet Veterans Day in the blogosphere, the biggest topic is a Public Policy Polling (D) survey which found that 59% of likely GOP voters in ME would vote for "a more conservative challenger" over Sen. Olympia Snowe in the 2012 GOP primary. ...
Advice To Blanche Lincoln: Speak Softly, But Carry Firm Position on Health Care Reform
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... to 44 percent. To repeat: Same state, same party, same position -- more or less -- on health care reform. But vastly different approaches: one senator seeking the spotlight, and the other shunning it. And vastly different trajectories of public opinion. Baucus, indeed, is not alone in this department: virtually everyone who has tried to play a dealmaker role in health care has seen their approval ratings decline, from Chuck Grassley to Olympia Snowe to Harry Reid to President Obama. If I were Blanche's ...
Putting a Cork in It
The New Republic blogs —
... what's happened? According to the Montana State University - Billings poll , Tester's approval ratings are virtually unchanged from two years earlier (although his disapproval rating has increased slightly). But Baucus has seen his fall precipitously, from 64 percent to 44 percent.... Baucus, indeed, is not alone in this department: virtually everyone who has tried to play a dealmaker role in health care has seen their approval ratings decline, from Chuck Grassley to Olympia Snowe to Harry Reid to President Obama .... I had two further ...
