A new poll of the runoff for the race for U.S. Senate in Mississippi finds Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) just barely leading challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS).
The weighted findings of the poll, conducted by the Democratic pollster Chism Strategies, found Cochran beating McDaniel 48 percent to 47 percent with 5 percent undecided. That finding is within the poll’s plus or minus 3.3 percentage point margin of error.
The new poll, conducted Friday, contrasts with a previous Chism Strategies poll of the race which showed McDaniel beating Cochran, 46 percent to 44 percent among likely Republican primary voters.
“This Friday night survey shows Cochran rebounds a bit after the pivot on messaging. It’s hard for me to believe this is a trend. The irony is astounding. We see Trent Lott reminding voters they need the federal government in their lives,” Chism said. “Dangerous gamble for Cochran. Every 30 second spot energizes McDaniel’s base.”
The new poll was conducted only of voters who participated in the June 3rd Republican primary. Chism surveyed 821 households for the poll.
I was born and raised in Miss. I have family and friends who would lose their jobs if the state quits getting federal money. It is scary to think of a tea party member who hates the government being the Senator for Miss. Can you imagine what would happen to Ingalls Ship Yard, all the military bases in Miss? I would love to have a democrat for senator, but I don’t want to see McDaniel in office either.
I’m sorry, what? You think a GOTPer will want to cut anything military?
The roads will go to gravel and the state will be policed by guys out of Mad Max before a GOTPer like McDaniel allows local military spending to be cut.
He’ll just demand that the spending for it comes out of (fill in the name of some program for poor people who don’t make campaign contributions here).
Fine let either one win by a narrow margin and we survive the fallout with a Dem.
If that actually did get pulled off, 2014 will turn out to be the GOTP’s 2010.
It just breaks my heart, to see Repukies having to spend their hard-earned campaign money to defeat each other, even before the general election…
OK, no it doesn’t. Ya got me…