GOP Candidates More Popular Than Democrats in Top Senate Races
Republican Joni Ernst had a 47 percent favorable and 45 percent unfavorable rating.
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Republican Joni Ernst had a 47 percent favorable and 45 percent unfavorable rating.
Vincent Sheheen, the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor in the Palmetto State, drew just under 47 percent of the vote in a losing effort, and Bob Conley, the Democratic nominee against Graham in 2008
So let me make an important distinction: While Democratic Senate candidates Alison Lundergan Grimes, 35, and Michelle Nunn, 47, have difficult races ahead of them in Kentucky and Georgia, each has
On the generic ballot, a Republican candidate led a Democratic candidate 47 percent to 42 percent. And President Barack Obama’s personal rating stood at 43 percent favorable/54 percent unfavorable.
The Republican Party had a 24 percent positive and 47 percent negative rating in the Jan. 22-25 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll .
And, in that game at least, he knows how to pace himself: He holds the unofficial congressional free-throw record, having once sunk 47 out of 50 in a contest in the House gym.
In that survey, Obama’s job approval rating was at 45 percent in early September, climbed to 47 percent during the government shutdown in early October and then sunk back to 42 percent in late October.
Ron Johnson matched the president 47 percent of the time in 2012 and 51 percent in 2011.
Barack Obama drew 47 percent of the vote in Georgia in 2008 and 45.5 percent last year. He will be Nunn’s single biggest liability in her bid. Obviously, she will try to localize the race.