Graham’s Lead Slips To Single Digits
By fitsnews • on September 22, 2008

Despite enjoying the most lopsided financial advantage we’ve ever seen in a race at this level (a $4 million war chest to his opponents’ $983), U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham leads political unknown Bob Conley by just nine points, according to a Rasmussen poll conducted last week.

Graham gets 50% of the vote (including just 76% of the GOP vote) compared to Conley’s 41% - a huge shift from previous polling that showed Graham enjoying a 20-point lead against the virtually unknown commercial pilot.

Conley, who has angered many Democrats by adopting fiscally-conservative positions on spending and limited government, has somehow managed to cut Graham’s lead in half over the past three months, despite having no money and virtually zero name ID across the state.

“If those numbers are accurate, then the anti-Republican, anti-incumbent sentiment is something that Republicans in less red parts of the country should certainly start taking notice of,â€