Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
POLITICO reports today, Dem poll: Carmona up 4 over Flake:
POLITICO's Scott Wong reports:
An internal poll for Senate Democrats shows former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona leading Republican Rep. Jeff Flake by 4 percentage points – a figure consistent with recent polling that has the candidates locked in a dead heat.
The poll results, outlined in a memo obtained by POLITICO on Wednesday, shows Carmona with a 47 percent to 43 percent advantage over Flake. That falls within the +/- 4 percent margin of error. The poll, conducted by Harstad Strategic Research Inc. for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, surveyed 602 likely Arizona voters from Sunday to Tuesday through live phone calls.
Democrats noted that of the voters surveyed, 39 percent identified themselves as Republican and 30 percent as Democrat, a more Republican sample than the state’s current voter registration. Carmona also led among registered independents 51 percent to 38 percent.
The poll was released on a crucial day in the Arizona Senate race. Carmona and Flake are sitting down at 4 p.m. ET with the editorial board of the Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper. The event will be streamed live here. The candidates then will meet tonight in their first televised debate [Horizon Eight (PBS) at 5:00 p.m. AZ Time]. Then, former President Bill Clinton stumps with Carmona at Arizona State University. Early voting starts Thursday.
Flake, a six-term congressman, is still favored to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Jon Kyl in the red state. But Paul Harstad and Mike Kulisheck, partners with Colorado-based Harstad, wrote that Carmona has room to grow considering he is still introducing himself to voters.
“With just four weeks before Election Day and early voting about to start, Carmona’s momentum and room for growth – along with voters’ increasing doubts about Flake’s record – bode well for an upset in Arizona’s Senate election this November,” they wrote.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/11/14371554-flake-was-for-pledges-before-he-was-against-them?lite People of AZ! WAKE UP! Flake cares more about signing a pledge to an UNELECTED CITIZEN than honoring the only pledge he should honor...the one to uphold the US Constitution. This guys is killing AZ...and he's bought and paid for. ENOUGH!
Posted by: Cheri | October 11, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Flake is bought and paid for by the private prison industry. And we are paying the bill for it. When you listen to the second debate you will hear that Flake has NO desire to secure the border. He talked about buying morne "ultralights" to ehance border security. He also said his plan was for swift punishment of illegal crossers. Sounds nice? Except Flake showed ne knows nothing anout the border when it was pointed out to him by Dr. Carmona that we don't use ultralights, the drug smugglers use them. Then what is Flake's real agenda? Filling up those prison beds of CCA. It came right out of his own mouth.
Posted by: Lynn | October 20, 2012 at 08:41 AM
Sorry for the typos.
Posted by: Lynn | October 20, 2012 at 08:43 AM
Flake is an ultralight candidate for sure. Can't say we've ever seen him, even for photo ops, along the border in Cochise County. Come to think of it, since the "build the dang fence" ads, we haven't seen ANYone except Gabby Giffords and Rob Barber.
Posted by: AZterritory | October 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM