Shutdown hurts GOP Senate chances

[tosh]

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/10/shutdown-hurts-gop-senate-chances.html

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In one case anger over the shutdown is helping to put a Republican held seat on the table:

-In Georgia voters oppose the shutdown 61/31, and it’s just another factor helping make this seat competitive for Democrats next year. Michelle Nunn is knotted with a generic Republican opponent at 42%.


The shutdown will be particularly problematic for the GOP if it nominates one of the House members seeking a promotion to the Senate- 47% of voters say they’re less likely to vote Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, or Jack Kingston for the Senate because of their support for the shutdown to only 32% who think it’s a positive. After being informed that her most likely opponents were among those House Republicans who favored the shutdown, Nunn improves to a 48/42 lead lead on the generic ballot.

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[gopiscrap]

1. Fuck I would hope it would kill it's chances

[Raffi Ella]

2. Thanks for posting.

If we could win back a seat next election it would mean so much...

Michelle Nunn, the Democratic candidate for an open Senate seat in Georgia, raised $1.7 million in her first 10 weeks as a candidate and has $1.4 million cash on hand, a Democratic source told POLITICO. The impressive haul for a first-time candidate comes from 6,700 individual donors.

Nunn, the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, is on leave as the CEO of the Points of Light Foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with former President George H.W. Bush. She gives Democrats perhaps their best opportunity to pick up a seat in a year when the map forces them to largely play defense. The party hopes that a contentious GOP primary generates an unelectable candidate.

“We have a tough and challenging road ahead, but I know that with the partnership of thousands of friends like you, we can create real change for our state and our nation,” she writes.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/michelle-nunn-fundraising-georgia-97994.html#ixzz2hwQs8QC4