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Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch has opened up a 9-point edge over Republican Mark Sanford in the special election playing out in South Carolina's First Congressional District, according to the latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling released Monday.
Fifty percent of voters in the district said they will vote for Colbert Busch, the sister of satirist Stephen Colbert, in the May 7 special election while 41 percent said they will vote for Sanford, South Carolina's former governor who resigned in 2009 after it was revealed that he had been visiting his longtime mistress in Argentina when he disappeared from the state. Only 3 percent said they will vote for Green Party candidate Eugene Platt.
PPP's previous survey of the race last month and an internal poll from the Colbert Busch campaign released earlier this month each showed a toss-up between the two major party candidates. But it's been a tumultuous past week for Sanford, who's seen the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee announce that it will not spend any additional money on his race and his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, file a lawsuit in which she accused him of trespassing and violating their divorce agreement. Moreover, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week released a brutal ad mocking Sanford for his 2009 mistress scandal.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-colbert-busch-opens-up-9-point-lead
bwahahaha
"It turns out he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Which is a trail that starts in Maine and ends in an Argentine woman's vagina"
Jon Stewert
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...Rheinhold's gang doesn't have a lot of money to play with...especially backing more losers. Sanford was polling poorly in what should be a heavy red district and with his latest run-in with his ex (or should I say: tresspass) this just made people remember what an arrogant shitstain he is. Having his Argentine bombshell with him on stage the night he won the primary didn't help either...people don't like this crap rubbed in their faces...
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)but I applaud her for telling him to take a hike (pun intended). can you imagine her reaction when he asked her to run his campaign? jeez.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)consider that Steven Colbert founded a pac, used it to lambaste pacs, and may very well have a sister for a senator, who is to the left of the DNC.
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)Brimley
(139 posts)He knows on what trail!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)"It turns out he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Which is a trail that starts in Maine and ends in an Argentine woman's vagina"
Jon Stewert
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)mercymechap
(579 posts)I just hope we do as well in other areas of the country. We need to clean House!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)Is there really any other answer to this question?