Thursday, July 8, 2010
Politics Haslam Leads by Double Digits in Channel 4 Poll
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM
There's still a little hope for Wamp: If you believe this poll, 36 percent are undecided. But he likely won't have enough cash to capitalize in the final weeks of the campaign. It would take a TV ad assault. We doubt the undecided vote remains that high anyway. Channel 4 says they phoned registered voters, but we don't know whether the respondents were screened to winnow out people who aren't likely to go to the polls. A careful screening, which probably didn't happen here because it cost more, might have produced a lower undecided number.
The Channel 4 survey more or less confirms an internal Haslam poll that was leaked to the media a month ago, and Haslam's campaign is touting this news tonight in a press release:
“Tennesseans want a serious discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing the state,” said Mark Cate, Campaign Manager. “Bill Haslam is having that discussion with them, and they like what they’re hearing because he is an experienced leader with the right temperament and proven record of job creation, strengthening education and conservatively managing a budget."
That's ridiculous, of course. Haslam has built his lead by airing millions of dollars worth of fluffy TV ads. He dodges serious discussion of the issues. That's his strategy, and it's working because his underfunded opponents have failed to challenge Haslam in their own ads.
All the Republican candidates are kicking the crap out of Mike McWherter in the poll, but that's essentially meaningless because McWherter hasn't paid for the first TV ad yet.
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Haslam has spent 8 million dollars and he ONLY has 32% of the vote....SOMETHING is definitely not working. Bet the Wamp folks are so excited they cant stand it.
Think about this...9 mil spent on a carpet bomb TV campaign for the past 9 months.....a million a month....versus Wamps 1 or 2 mil TOTAL and he is barely leading by a margin of error. Guess were proving smarter than Tom Ingram thinks thought we were.
Haslams in trouble and Ramsey is done. Watch Haslam dump 10 mil of his OWN money in the race now cause whos gonna donate any more?....he has tapped out and all the money will flow to Wamp to cover their bets.....this is gonna be interesting......
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yup...Ramseys done...who in their right mind would donate a dollar to a guy with 11% of the vote? its time for him to kick the boots off and do some horse trading....I say he drops out by Monday....whats the point of staying in...?
Repubvoter, raised not spent. Repubvoter C-Street, past drug use, college drop, mountain top removal. Wamp will be lucky to get 50 percent in Chattanooga, they hate Wamp over the unfinished Chickamauga Dam Lock project he promised them 16 years ago. Betcha, Haslam goning to carry Chattanooga, watch.
But Edwin...are you saying that 9 months of state wide TV has not depleted his war chest?
What I see is many millions of dollars wasted on a campaign that has not registered with the voters....
sure he likes pie so why are you harping on C Street...not sure if you saw that the ethics office dropped that one due to lack of finding anything...past drug use happened 26 years ago....not last week...26 years...college drop out....so was Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerburg,Ted Turner, Carly Fiorina and JOHN GLEN....nobody cares...
or to put it another way Americans like people who are REAL.....just like themselves..warts and all...everybody has flaws....cept nobdy can see Bill Haslams because he hides behind his commercials and THEY ARE NOT RESONATING....how can you say they are when he only has 30% of the vote.....
I agree with the guy above...he is gonna self fund and its gonna be a wild ride....
I think someone needs to check their facts. Carly Fiorina went and graduated from Stanford, University of Maryland, and MIT. It is not the fact that Wamp did not finish college that bothers a lot people, it is the fact that he comes across as not being very intelligent. Those people that you named are wired differently and did not make a career of buying votes through earmarks and funneling it to Oak Ridge, instead of Wamp's hometown of Chattanooga. As for C-Street, the issue is not paying below market rent but the fact that C-Street has claimed the tax status of a church, which has been given a lot of preferential tax treatment because of that.
re: C-Street - not to mention all the legislative and diplomatic sway (some of it particularly heinous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-H…) they've wielded through the years in spite of their 501(c)(3) status. And hey, what's with all the extra-marital affairs of their members? Iis cheating on your wife (a sin, iirc) like a badge of honor with these dudes??
Stonefortusa, Are you suggesting that a persons history and patterns of behavior are not relevant to character. You seem to be implying that drug use, C-Street, and just flat out southern lies of TARP votes, have time restrictions to considered. I have an expectation that the executive leader of the state of Tennessee, that will have to reform public education, will indeed have graduated from college. This is CEO of the State, a college degree is a reasonable expectation. If you think Washington Wamper Stomper fit pitching sounds intelligent, you ain't listening.
Edwin: I can name you 100 people who haven't graduated from college that are wonderful leaders....at the same time I can name you hundreds of people who have that I wouldnt follow into an ice cream shop...so I dont think its even relevant......on the other hand think about all the other folks w/o a college degree and the hope it gives them that they too can grow up to be more than a truckdriver and that a college degree is not a requirement for success....every story has two sides....my grandmother taught me that...
Im saying that if somebody did something 26 years ago and havent since then its a non issue. think about it....I would be willing to bet my house that if you hooked up either Haslam or Ramsey to a lie detector that you would find BOTH had used drugs...unfortunately back then, and I know cause I lived thru that period...it was as common as beer is today.....so I dont see how something done 26 years ago and not since constitutes a pattern....its just a means to slander someone and a pitiful one at that.
C-Street is about as old as proclaiming Obama is not a true citizen or the Illuminati run the gov or any number of wacky conspiracy theories....it is what it is....a group/place/foundation started in the 30's that offers congressmen a clean, close, cheap place to live thats very near the Capitol in exchange for promoting civility between the two parties. Thats what it was formed for. It does have one underlying characteristic.......all its residents are true conservatives....so true their are no liberals living in C Street.
As for TARP seeing how nearly 50% has been paid back and we just made a 21 BILLION DOLLAR profit last week....it may turn out to be one of the best deals our Gov has ever done.....
so in the end it just seems like you are hell bent on trying to destroy someones reputation cause either
a. your getting paid to do it.
b. they did something to you that you didnt like.
otherwise why take the time to beat the same dead horse over and over....just my take of course....
"all its residents are true conservatives"
ah yes, "true conservatives": folks who clamor for limited government in every arena... EXCEPT when it comes to allowing certain taxpaying, consenting, law-abiding citizens to marry. OR when it comes to dangerous, interventionist foreign policies. OR when it comes to a strict separation of church and state as envisioned by our founders.
Ok nash_gop-guy Lets assume that Wamp’s abnormal intensity is not drug fueled, put my head in the sand like a good cult member and pretend "the Family” and C-Street does not exist, and ignore Wamp's voting record in congress, and no college degree are all irrelevant. If asking questions or pointing out these facts equates to “character assassination” then your Wamp campaign has problems., because guess what, the people have a right to ask.
Are you suggesting that being civically involved means you are paid or angry. Last time I checked, I am free to care deeply about the state of Tennessee that has been my home since 1959. This baby boomer is not moved at all by off topic critism, and will continue to object to a crazed incompetent, named Zach Wamp, running the state. Now kma.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36821 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmh7ogDKqk&feature=autofb
Telling the tea baggers in Gatlinburg that his city was blessed by Gawd for prohibiting abortion clinics is all you need to know Wamp is stark raving wacko. Even granting it were true, presuming to know the will of a supernatural diety is nuts.
The best governor this state has had during my lifetime was a college dropout. His son is the likely Democratic nominee.
One thing I wonder about with regard to Bill Haslam. Why would a former mayor of Knoxville, whose papa sits on the UT Board of Trustees and played on the university's first national championship football team, choose crimson and white for his campaign posters?
My question is how can Wamp enter politics after declaring bankruptcy, leaving boatloads of creditors and banks unpaid, then emerge from politics all these years later a wealthy man? He says he didn't moonlight, but he is just another career politician that has made a tidy sum of money representing his "constituents". He should have stayed on crack
I have to say Haslam (or his people) is the only candidate who responded to my emails about mountaintop removal coal mining. He's not as firmly against the practice as I'd like, but he did show respect to a voter by answering my questions.
Ramsey deleted my questions from his facebook, and has not responded to email questions. Wamp's website says basically that you can ask questions, but don't expect answers.
