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John McCain Widens Lead Over GOP Challenger J.D. Hayworth
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain has widened his lead over J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman and conservative talk show host, who is challenged him for the GOP nomination, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 17. McCain now leads Hayworth 52 percent to 40 percent with 2 percent preferring another candidate and 6 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.5 points. In mid-April, McCain's lead had been 47 percent to 42 percent. Hayworth's problem is that while he is running against McCain from the right, he is not besting him among Republicans who describe themselves as ...
McCain, Brewer Leading Their GOP Primary Opponents in Arizona
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn Arizona's pair of GOP primary races, Sen. John McCain still has a double-digit lead over former conservative talk show host J.D. Hayworth although he's slipped under 50 percent support, while Gov. Jan Brewer leads the field of fellow Republicans who want her job, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll conducted May 3-5. McCain is leading Hayworth 48 percent to 36 percent with 6 percent preferring someone else and 10 percent undecided. He had led 52 percent to 37 percent in Research 2000's last poll in late March. In the gubernatorial primary race, Brewer, who made national news when ...
McCain Has an 11-Point Lead Over Conservative Rival J.D. Hayworth
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain's stock may be down with the state's voters as a poll showed yesterday, but he still leads former congressman and conservative talk show host J.D. Hayworth, his challenger for the GOP nomination, by 46 percent to 35 percent, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted April 23-25. Seven percent preferred another candidate and 12 percent were undecided. Hayworth leads McCain among conservatives (66 percent of the sample) by 46 percent to 38 percent with 20 percent preferring someone else or undecided. But McCain has a huge 60 percent to 15 percent lead among ...
McCain Leads Hayworth by Just 5 Points in GOP Primary Fight
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain leads his challenger for the GOP Senate nomination, J.D. Hayworth, by just 47 percent to 42 percent, a loss of 2 points for McCain since last month, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted April 13. Two percent prefer another candidate and 8 percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. McCain is seen favorably by 67 percent of like primary voters and unfavorably by 33 percent. Hayworth, a former congressman and conservative radio talk show host, is seen favorably by 58 percent and unfavorably by 34 percent, with 7 percent not knowing enough about ...
McCain Has 15 Point Lead Over Hayworth in GOP Primary Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain is leading his former congressman and conservative radio host J.D. Hayworth by 52 percent to 37 percent with 11 percent undecided in their primary race for the GOP senate nomination, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll conducted March 29-31. That's a more comfortable margin than Rasmussen Reports found in a poll conducted Maqrch 17 where McCain's margin was just 48 percent to 41 percent. In the Research 2000 poll, McCain does better than Hayworth in hypothetical general election match-ups with four Democrats, although in all but one case, both men run ...
Palin Campaigns for McCain in Arizona
By not in system - AOL NewsTUCSON, Ariz. (March 26) -- Sarah Palin lent her star power among fellow conservatives to former running mate John McCain in his tough Senate re-election campaign, telling a rally Friday that McCain pegged President Barack Obama right when he said the Democrat would swell the size of government. McCain is facing the hardest election fight of his Senate career as he fends off a Republican primary challenge from the right. J.D. Hayworth, former congressman and conservative talk radio host, says McCain is too moderate for Arizona Republicans. Hayworth has tried to build support among ...
McCain's GOP Primary Challenger Trails Him by Just 7 Points
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyConservative talk show host and former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who is mounting a primary campaign from the right against Sen. John McCain in Arizona, trails the former GOP presidential candidate by just 7 points, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted March 17. McCain leads Hayward, 48 percent to 41 percent, with 3 percent preferring another choice and 8 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. Last November, the two men were tied in a hypothetical match-up by Rasmussen. In January, after McCain's former running mate, Sarah Palin, said she would campaign for him, his ...
McCain Looking Safer if He Gets a GOP Primary Challenge from the Right
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySen. John McCain is comfortably back on top of J. D. Hayworth should the conservative talk show host make a run at him from the right, with McCain leading Hayworth 53 percent to 31 percent, while 4 percent back former Minuteman leader Chris Simcox, 3 percent prefer some other candidate and 8 percent are undecided, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Jan. 20 In November, the two ran about even. The Arizona Daily Star reported Friday that Hayworth was getting into the race. McCain has not sat on his hands when it comes to that possibility. He launched a radio ad attacking ...
Terry Goddard Leads Jan Brewer in Arizona Governor Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer trails Attorney General Terry Goddard, the likely Democratic nominee, by 47 percent to 28 percent in her bid for re-election, with 4 percent liking neither and 21 percent undecided, according to an Arizona State University/Eight-KAET poll conducted Nov. 19-22. ...
Pressure From the Right: GOP Candidates Bet On Obama Fatigue
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJohn McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says he's "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and enjoyed her book? The one that trashes his 2008 presidential campaign? Strange, I thought. Then I saw a poll that showed the sometime maverick-moderate vulnerable to a primary challenge next year from the right.The Republican primary process has triggered an epidemic of identity crises among prominent and promising Republicans. Between Sarah Palin, tea parties, and the Club For Growth, there are Senate candidates scurrying rightward on everything ...
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