Poll stunner: Bennett on brink of defeat

notesdev

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Tue Apr-27-10 10:41 AM
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Poll stunner: Bennett on brink of defeat

Edited on Tue Apr-27-10 10:43 AM by notesdev

Unless Sen. Bob Bennett's political fortunes change dramatically in the next two weeks, he could become Utah's first incumbent U.S. senator to lose his party's nomination in seven decades.

A new Salt Lake Tribune poll of Republican delegates shows Bennett running in third, behind GOP challengers Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater.

Lee logged 37 percent support in the survey, while Bridgewater came in at 20 percent, and Bennett lagged at 16 percent.

The survey of 400 Republican delegates, with a 4.4 percent margin of error, was conducted April 22-25 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C. It comes less than two weeks before the May 8 state GOP convention.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14964318

edit: If you look at the internals, this looks like the first state about to cross over from the Republican Party to the Tea Party. Interesting times...

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Sanity Claws

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Tue Apr-27-10 10:51 AM
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1. Wonder what will happen in the general election

Could the Republican candidate be so extreme that the general population votes in a Democrat?

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movonne

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Tue Apr-27-10 10:54 AM
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2. not in utah

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Walk away

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Tue Apr-27-10 10:58 AM
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3. But this is a warning to Republican politicians everywhere....

2010 may see wins for the party but the machine is broken.

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Alison Matusak

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Mon May-10-10 02:26 PM
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4. Wow, who would have ever expected the GOP to kick out Bennett!

Wow, who would have ever expected the GOP to kick out Bennett!

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