I’ve seen chatter on the Web about Rasmussen being a polling outfit whose work tends to favor Republicans. I don’t know, but if its method of using robo-calls to query voters is more reliable than traditional methods or if said method actually yields a greater GOP result, I’d be a bit concerned if I were in charge of a Republican gubernatorial campaign.
A Feb. 9 Rasmussen poll checked 12 different general election match-ups and the GOP led in 11. So, what’s the problem?
In none of the match-ups did the GOP candidate exceed 50 percent support.
The conventional wisdom is that 2010 is a Republican year nationally and in Michigan. Granholm fatigue is supposed to be strong.
Certainly the Democrats are running scared. Their candidate field is thin and largely unknown. But even with all this, they are still in the ball game in the Rasmussen results.
Virg Bernero, for example, is losing 34-40 to AG Mike Cox, 31-40 to Oakland Sheriff Mike Bouchard and 30-43 to Congressman Pete Hoekstra. It’s not great for Bernero to be in the 30s, but neither is it good for these better-known Republicans to be in the low 40s.
Check out the answers to other questions. This is a polling sample of people who aren’t happy with recent events. Since the Dems have had the governor’s chair for almost eight years and half the Legislature for half that time, you would think the GOP advantage would be larger at this point.
