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Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Poll: McDaniel beating Cochran 43-36

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Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Poll: McDaniel beating Cochran 43-36



by Matthew Boyle 19 May 2014, 10:41 AM PDT 450 post a comment

A new poll from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund shows that Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel has seven-point lead over 36-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).

The poll, conducted by pollster George Birnbaum of GEB International who surveyed 600 likely GOP primary voters on May 14, shows McDaniel beating Cochran outside the 4 percent margin of error 43 percent to 36 percent.

The Tea Party group says this is a 30-point swing in favor of McDaniel since its last poll, conducted on April 2 with the same confidence level and same number of likely GOP primary voters, showed McDaniel losing to Cochran 28 percent to 51 percent, respectively.

“A 30-point ballot move in six weeks is rare, indeed,” Birnbaum said in a release. “Clearly, as more voters are tuning in to the race, and learning more about Chris McDaniel, and learning more about how Thad Cochran has lost touch with Mississippi values, they are moving away from Cochran and to McDaniel.”

Birnbaum added that the poll shows “a strong indication of McDaniel’s surge,” but he added, “perhaps more important is the fact that 80% of those with a favorable view of McDaniel say they plan to vote for him, against just 70% of those with a favorable view of Cochran who say they plan to vote for him.”

“Historically, incumbents who don’t win the votes of at least 80% of the voters who view them favorably don’t win,” Birnbaum said.

Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund exclusively told Breitbart News, too, that 68.5 percent of respondents said it was “unacceptable” when asked that “that despite Thad Cochran’s four decades as one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, Mississippi still ranks dead last in so many categories like education and median income.”

As such, McDaniel’s surge—as evidenced by this poll and another poll from Citizens United, where he is just inside the margin of error with a slim lead over Cochran—comes as he publicly embraced the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) pledge against amnesty and a massive increase in legal immigration instead pledging to help American workers find work. And it comes as McDaniel backed the “conservative reform agenda” of Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), designed to offer proactive conservative policies that shrink government’s influence in people’s lives while getting them back to work and on the pathway to economic prosperity.

In the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund poll, Cochran’s favorable rating among GOP primary voters in the state slid significantly. Back in the April 2 poll, Cochran had a 64 percent favorable rating and a 21 percent unfavorable rating. In this new poll, Cochran’s favorable rating has dropped under 50 percent to 48 percent and his unfavorable rating has climbed to 32 percent. The Tea Party group notes in a press release this is a “27-point swing against him.”

McDaniel’s favorability in the April 2 poll 29 percent up against 10 percent unfavorable, but he has had a seven-point positive swing in this new poll. He now, according to the Tea Party group’s polling data, stands at a 44 percent favorable rating with an 18 percent unfavorable rating.

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POLL: Tea Party's McDaniel Leads Cochran 43-39



by Matthew Boyle 19 May 2014, 8:40 AM PDT 511 post a comment

A new Citizens United Political Victory Fund poll shows that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is slightly trailing his Tea Party challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel just a couple weeks from election day in Mississippi. The election is on June 3.

The poll, conducted by pollster Kellyanne Conway of the Polling Company, Inc., found that McDaniel is beating Cochran 43 percent to 39 percent, respectively. A third candidate, Tom Carey, has 3 percent of voters according to the poll, and 12 percent of voters are undecided.

Conway’s firm conducted the poll between May 14 and May 15, and it surveyed 505 likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi. The poll has a 4.4 percent margin of error, meaning McDaniel’s lead is so narrow it’s just inside the margin of error according to this data.

Top-line data that Citizens United Political Victory Fund released with the poll results shows that Cochran is losing even though his favorables are above 50 percent. A total of 56 percent of GOP primary voters think of Cochran as favorable, while only 31 percent view him unfavorably.

McDaniel, on the other hand, has 49 percent who view him as favorable, 19 percent as unfavorable, and 30 percent who either have no opinion or don’t know of McDaniel.

This poll comes just about six weeks after another public poll, from the Tea Party Express, showed McDaniel trailing Cochran 45 percent to 37 percent. A Human Events poll last December showed McDaniel and Cochran tied at 40 percent.

“Mississippi primary voters want new conservative leadership in the United States Senate,” Citizens United president David Bossie told Breitbart News. “That is why Chris McDaniel is well positioned to win on June 3rd.”

The poll was conducted before a 28-year-old blogger was arrested Friday night for entering Cochran's wife's residence at a Madison, MS retirement home to take a photograph of her.

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