Thread: Arizona GOP Primary for Senate: McCain 47%, Hayworth 42%

Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate

Arizona Republican Primary for Senate: McCain 47%, Hayworth 42%

Friday, April 16, 2010

Incumbent John McCain now earns just 47% support to challenger J.D. Hayworth’s 42% in Arizona’s hotly contested Republican Senate Primary race, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely primary voters.

McCain has been losing ground since January when he picked up 53% of the potential GOP Primary vote and Hayworth had only 31% support.

Last month, the longtime senator and 2008 GOP presidential candidate earned 48% of the vote, while 41% of likely primary voters supported his challenger.

Just two percent (2%) now prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.

Any incumbent who is earning less than 50% of the vote at this stage of the campaign is considered vulnerable. Arizona Republicans will pick their candidate in an August 24 primary.


Hayworth, a former congressman and conservative talk radio host, has been attacking McCain from the right and courting Tea Party voters who nationally are unhappy with incumbents from both parties. McCain has countered with endorsements from a number of prominent Republicans, including most significantly his 2008 running mate, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who recently attended a pro-McCain rally in the state.

Eighty-six percent (86%) of GOP Primary voters in Arizona think the recently-passed national health care bill should be repealed, with 78% who strongly favor repeal. Fifty percent (50%) of those who strongly favor repeal support Hayworth; 41% of those voters support McCain.

Eighty percent (80%) of primary voters say their own views on the major issues of the day are closer to the views of the average Tea Party member than to those of President Obama. Forty-two percent (42%) of those voters back McCain, while 49% support Hayworth. Among the 10% of primary voters who say their views are closer to the president's, McCain earns 68% of the vote, Hayworth 16%.

Hayworth has been especially critical of McCain’s leading role in the failed comprehensive immigration reform effort in 2006 and 2007, saying it was mainly intended to give amnesty to illegal immigrants, a charge his opponent has denied.

Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republican Primary voters in the state say gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers.

Only 11% think legalization is more important.

Ninety-one percent (91%) say a candidate’s position on immigration is at least somewhat important to how they will vote, with 67% who say it is very important.

McCain is viewed very favorably by 31% of likely primary voters and very unfavorably by only nine percent (9%).

Twenty-four percent (24%) have a very favorable view of Hayworth, while 18% view him very unfavorably.

While both candidates are well-known among likely primary voters, Rasmussen Reports considers the number of people with strong opinions more significant than the total favorable/unfavorable numbers at this point in a campaign.

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Businessman Rodney Glassman has now formally announced as a Democratic Senate candidate.

Election 2010: Arizona Senate
Arizona Senate: McCain, Hayworth Lead Glassman (D)

Friday, April 16, 2010

Both Republican hopefuls hold an early advantage in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the U.S. Senate race in Arizona.

Newly announced Democratic candidate Rodney Glassman, a Tucson City Council member, earns 32% support to Senator John McCain's 54%. Eight percent (8%) would vote for some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

If McCain's GOP Primary challenger, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, is the Republican in the race, he gets 48% support, while Glassman picks up 39% of the vote. Seven percent (7%) would opt for some other candidate, while another seven percent (7%) are undecided.


McCain, who is seeking a fifth Senate term, leads Hayworth by just five points, 47% to 42%, in the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of the primary race. Arizona Republicans will pick their candidate in an August 24 primary. Glassman faces no serious competition for his party's nomination at this point.

Potential bad news for the Democrat is the finding that 57% of the state’s voters believe the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama will be bad for the country. Thirty-two percent (32%) say it will be good for the country.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters in Arizona favor a repeal of the law, including 53% who strongly favor repeal. That's higher than support for repeal nationally. Thirty-three percent (33%) oppose repeal, including 28% who strongly oppose it.

Both Republicans earn nearly 80% support from those who strongly support repeal. Glassman picks up equally overwhelming support from those who strongly oppose repeal.

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Time to pour the coal to it in this race! We should all be on evey blog in Arizona highlighting the facts about McCain.

Besides being an open border sellout there is something for everyone to dislike about McCain. We just have to keep sharing it with enough people to make those seeds of doubt bloom on August 24th!

Keating Five, Cap & Trade, McCain Feingold, Incumbent serving his 28th year in Congress....

We need a laundry list of internet Medias from across the state of Arizona and activist willing to use blogs to remind the voters who apparently from election to election forget just who McCain is. The fact that he a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and has every intention of pursuing the goals and ambitions of the globalists is enough for me to say he must go.


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What I have witnessed from McCain is his obsessive need to maintain his reputation of taking a different road from that of the value based, religious right, Conservatives. In my opinion it shows his arrogance and severe lack of judgment.


The 2007 backroom Socialist legislation, aka, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, authored by McCain, Kennedy, 40 Mexican Consulates, the ACLU and the Chamber of Commerce should have turned the stomach of a true America loving Patriot….but I digress.

McCain was one of the first to step out and join the rhetoric of Moveon.org. by calling water-boarding “tortureâ€