Thread: Dem poll: Kay Hagan lead vanishes

Dem poll: Kay Hagan lead vanishes


The poll suggests Hagan could be suffering from the implementation of Obamacare. | AP Photo

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 11/12/13 12:15 PM EST

Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans’ target list for 2014 — and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated.

Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points, 44 percent to 42 percent, according to the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. She leads Rev. Mark Harris by 2 points as well, 43 percent to 41 percent, and nurse Heather Grant by 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.

Hagan trails physician Greg Brannon, the Rand Paul-endorsed candidate in the race, by 1 point: he leads 44 percent to 43 percent.

That’s a huge difference from PPP’s September poll, which gave Hagan leads of anywhere from 12 to 17 points against all possible GOP challengers.

(Also on POLITICO: Hagan seeks Obamacare probe)

Hagan’s approval ratings are underwater in the poll: 49 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the job she’s doing, compared with 44 percent who approve.

The poll also suggests she could be suffering from the implementation of Obamacare: 69 percent of those surveyed said the law’s rollout has been unsuccessful so far, compared with 25 percent who say it’s been a success.

In the four-way GOP primary, Tillis leads the pack with 20 percent. He’s followed by Harris at 14 percent, Brannon at 11 percent and Grant at 8 percent. Just under half of GOP voters are undecided.

The poll surveyed 701 North Carolina voters from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11. The margin of error is +/- 3.7 percent for the general election questions and +/- 4.4 percent for the GOP primary questions.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/1...oll-99731.html

for some reason; these politicians seem to think only Republican Tea Party People are pissed

I got news for these Dumb A@@'s; the elderly are pissed; the young are pissed; Democrat's, Republicans and Independents are pissed

Muck'm ... they wont listen; time to put them all in the unemployment line... your watching a slow motion epic event that's going to shake DC ... 1 firing at a time

Oh, Look: Another Red State Democratic Senator In Trouble

By Brian Carey on November 12, 2013 Subscribe to Brian Carey's Feed@brianmcarey



Thanks, ObamaCare!

It appears that Sen. Kay Hagan, one of those Democrats who pretends to have common sense (i.e., conservative principles) so that she can get elected and then spend the first 2/3 of her term voting in lock-step with Democratic stalwarts like Harry Reid and Dick Durbin, is now in trouble in her home state of North Carolina.
Go Tarheels! Go Wolfpack! Go Demon Deacons! Go Blue Devils!
Kay Hagan: Just go!
She’s currently trailing every prospective Republican challenger. She was ahead of all of them by 12-17 points in September.

Of course, she knows that she’s up for re-election next year, so she’s back to pretending to be a conservative/centrist/moderate so that she doesn’t appear to be totally out of the mainstream. Unfortunately (for her), she is totally out of the mainstream.
She voted for ObamaCare. That’s the most irresponsible piece of legislation ever passed in the last several decades. Our wonderful nation is currently, and painfully, discovering that.
But to say ObamaCare has a bad reputation right now is like saying that Chuck Schumer looks like a grinning gremlin. It’s true, but it doesn’t come close to stating the extent of the situation.
We think that ObamaCare is only to get worse as time passes. As a result, we don’t expect tha Ms. Hagan will fare better in the polls.
Unless, of course, the Republicans nominate someone who thinks that rape is cool. Then, she’s got a chance. Just ask Claire McCaskill.


http://downtrend.com/brian-carey/oh-...or-in-trouble/

Poll: Red State Senate Democrat in Deep, Deep Trouble

Daniel Doherty | Nov 13, 2013



The president’s approval numbers are tanking (we’re officially at George W. Bush levels, guys) so it only makes sense that a vulnerable Senate Democrat who (a) hails from North Carolina and (b) voted for Obamacare would be feeling the pinch at the polls right about now. But let's put aside the botched rollout for a second. Millions of Americans are losing their coverage and/or doctors, and they’re not happy about it. But what can ordinary citizens even do about it, you ask? They can make their voices heard at the ballot box.
And they’re already starting to:

Sen. Kay Hagan's (D-N.C.) lead has all but disappeared in a new poll, a sign that ObamaCare's struggles and attack ads airing in the state are taking a toll on her standing. Hagan leads North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tilis (R) by 44 percent to 42 percent in a new survey from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, a precipitous drop from a 15-point lead she held in a September poll from the same firm.
She holds similarly narrow leads against the other Republicans in the field, and actually trails Tea Party candidate Greg Brannon (R) by 44 to 43 percent. Her approval rating has stayed steady, with 44 percent approving of her now, but her disapproval rating has spiked from 39 percent in September to 49 percent today.
Hagan is a top GOP target this election cycle — Republican strategists have said her seat is the most likely tipping point for Senate control — and outside Republican groups have been on the air lambasting her record and ripping her for backing ObamaCare in recent weeks.

The race, as it stands, is basically a coin flip. Naturally, we don’t know who the Republican nominee will be, but all candidates in the race stand poised, ready and waiting, to give Senator Hagan a run for her money. But what’s remarkable, per Politico, is that polling conducted in September showed her leading anywhere between 12 and 17 percentage points. That lead is history. Even the Tea Party guy is a possible front runner now.
Hagan’s approval ratings, meanwhile, are upside down:

Hagan’s approval ratings are underwater in the poll: 49 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the job she’s doing, compared with 44 percent who approve. The poll also suggests she could be suffering from the implementation of Obamacare: 69 percent of those surveyed said the law’s rollout has been unsuccessful so far, compared with 25 percent who say it’s been a success.

Hagan’s seat is perhaps Senate Republicans’ number one target. Remember, Hagan rode to Washington on the coat tails of candidate Hope and Change. Now, of course, the president faces across-the-board unfavorable ratings, and the disastrous rollout is really upsetting voters in North Carolina. If Obamacare continues to be a thorn in the president’s side, Hagan will, in turn, feel that pinprick, too. As bad as Obamacare is, it’s really opening a window for Republicans to potentially reclaim the Senate in 2014.
Let’s hope they capitalize.


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danield...campaign=nl_pm

Flip the Senate in 2014

SPOX: SEN. KAY HAGAN KNEW SOME WOULD LOSE HEALTHCARE PLANS UNDER OBAMACARE




by MATTHEW BOYLE
14 Nov 2013

A spokeswoman for red state Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) confirmed to a local newspaper Thursday that her boss knew insurance cancellations would increase under the Affordable Care Act.

In response to a series of Obamacare questions from North Carolina GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mark Harris—Harris and fellow GOP U.S. Senate candidates like North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis have been needling Hagan on Obamacare's failures for days—Hagan’s spokeswoman admitted that the Senator was involved in crafting the language of the actual legislation.

“First, this is nothing more than a political stunt that does nothing to help more people get access to care and highlights the difference between Kay, who is working to fix this law, and her opponents who don't have any plan to reform our broken health care system,” Hagan spokeswoman Sadie Weiner told the News and Record, a Greensboro, NC newspaper. “In her capacity as a member of the HELP Committee, Senator Hagan was involved with that committee's markup of the health care reform bill in the summer of 2009.”

In the next sentence of the quote, Weiner states that her boss Hagan was aware of the fact that people would lose their healthcare plans under Obamacare some time ago.

“Once insurance companies began disingenuously offering plans that they knew they would be canceling it became clear that more people would be getting cancellation letters,” Weiner said.
“That's why Senator Hagan supports the Landrieu bill to allow people to stay on their current plans,” Weiner added. “Yes she read the bill.”

Weiner has not answered a series of questions from Breitbart News in response to this admission—including when specifically Hagan knew that at least some people were going to lose their plans and when she learned that “more people” were going to as well. However, she did refer Breitbart News, upon a request for comment, to an updated quote that she gave to the local paper.

"Yeah I could have phrased that better,” Weiner said in the updated quote. “The full scope of the problem became clear only when cancellation letters started going out, since information on non-ACA compliant plans was not made public by the insurance companies. And remember—we are talking about this because insurance companies were disingenuously offering plans that they knew they would have to cancel, and Kay is supporting a bill to fix it.”

Weiner’s updated quote is not a retraction of the original statement. It does not address whether Sen. Hagan anticipated whether health plans existing at the time of the ACA's drafting would be in compliance with the bill's regulations or not. It does not address whether it "became clear" to Hagan that cancellations would increase before she promised Americans they could keep their healthcare plans after the bill's passage—a promise which, as Breitbart News' John Nolte reported this week, still stands on her official website.

Hagan has made this promise on video multiple times. According to the North Carolina GOP, Hagan made the promise through various different media outlets at least 22 different times.



Harris, one of the GOP candidates in the primary vying for the chance to run against Hagan in 2014, told Breitbart News in response to this revelation--one that his pressure on Hagan prompted--that Hagan’s spokeswoman just admitted that the senator is in serious trouble over Obamacare.

“Unfortunately, this admission shows that Senator Hagan knew all along that unsuspecting citizens would be booted off their current plans while she was out promising time after time that 'if they liked their healthcare plan they can keep it,'” Harris said in an email. “And if that wasn’t enough, Senator Hagan has sidestepped all accountability and has blamed the entire debacle on the healthcare insurance providers.”

Jordan Shaw, the campaign manager and spokesman for Tillis's campaign, told Breitbart News Thursday they believe this comment shows Hagan has misled her constituents.

“Based on the comments of her spokeswoman, it’s apparent that Kay Hagan has been lying to the people of North Carolina for the last four years,” Shaw said Thursday evening. “This is more evidence that Kay Hagan and President Obama knew the consequences of the Affordable Care Act when they wrote it and misled the American people in order to pass it.”

Weiner has not responded to further requests for comment or clarification.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...nder-Obamacare

NC Senate: Kay Hagan’s approval rating tanks

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 2:00pm | posted by Jason Pye

Fresh off a Public Policy Polling survey showing her in statistical ties with four potential Republican opponents, a new poll from Elon Unversity shows North Carolina voters are increasingly unhappy the job performance of Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and that healthcare is single most important issue on their minds.

The Elon Unversity poll found that 37% of voters approve of Hagan’s job performance, while 44% disapprove, a net-negative of 7 points. In September, the North Carolina-based school showed her approval rating slightly above water at 38/35.

North Carolinians have continued to sour on President Barack Obama. His approval rating is at 37/54, up from 38/51 in September.

The most prominent issue on the minds of North Carolina voters is healthcare (24%), followed by the economy (21%), jobs/unemployment (13%), and budget/debt (10%). Just 31% of voters in the state believe Obamacare will make healthcare better, while 54% say it will make thing. worse.

That’s an ominous sign for Hagan, given all of the attention currently on Obamacare, including the disastrous rollout of the federal exchange website and 473,000 health plan cancellations in the state.

Hagan is among the vulnerable Democrats who promised that Americans would be able to keep their health plans under Obamacare. “The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee crafted a bill that ensures that people who like their insurance and their doctors keep them,” she said in 2009.

In recent days, Hagan and her staff have tried to blame insurance companies for the cancellations, playing up her role and crafting the law and also acknowledging that she knew plans would be canceled. In September 2010, Hagan voted in favor of the “grandfathered” plan regulations that have led to the cancellations.

The poll found that voters aren’t familiar with any of the four Republicans running against Hagan, though, state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC) was the most recognized. Elon didn’t poll any of the Republicans candidate against Hagan.

The poll of 681 registered North Carolina voters was conducted between November 15-18. The margin of error is +/- 3.76%.

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