According to The Palm Beach Post, the Palin-endorsed campaign of Congressional candidate Allen West in FL-22 raised $1.4 million during the second quarter of 2010:
That tops the campaign’s previous best quarter, which was $838,000 during the first three months of the year.A very interesting coincidence - Gov. Palin gave Col. West her endorsement on March 29. The second quarter of the calendar year began only three days later.
The totals mean West has collected a total of $3.5 million for his campaign and has $2.2 million on hand.
Just sayin'...
h/t: Jim Geraghty
- JP
Josh - the first comprehensive poll of the Washington State primary has been released by the firm "Washington State Polls" and it is a shocker - finding Sarah endorsed Clint Didier with a narrow lead over Dino Rossi.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonstatepolls.com/SENATE-SURVEY-01.htm
The results are as follows:
Patty Murray (D) 33.4%
Clint Didier (R) 16.9%
Dino Rossi (R) 15.9%
Paul Akers (R) 6.5%
All other candidates 3.6%
Undecided 23.7%
Washington State - since 2008 - has used the "jungle" primary voting system recently approved by California. Under this system all registered voters (Rep., Dem. & Ind.)get the same ballot in the primary which contains the names of all candidates (Rep., Dem. & Ind.). Voters can vote for ony one candidate. This allows voters to easily cross party lines. The top two candidates advance to the general election - even if they represent the same party. Based on this survey, Murray and Didier would advance to the general election.
This survey by Washington State Polls was done over the last two weeks beginning on July 25, 2010. It surveyed 8,823 registered voters over the entire state with a very small margin of error of 1.04% - because of the large sample size.
The cross tabs of the survey are fascinating. First, all Republicans vote for a Republican candidate. None of them cross over to vote for a Democrat or Independent. Rossi gets the largest share of the Rep. vote with 33.6%, but Didier is close behind with 31.1%. Aker trails with 13.4% and 18.4% of Republicans are undecided.
However, when it comes to independents Didier cleans up getting 22% to Rossi's 11% and Patti Murray getting only 3% of independents. This probably reflects the Tea Party effect for Didier.
When it comes to Democrats, almost all vote for Murray but 2.8% do cross over and vote for Didier. No Democrats switch over to vote for Rossi. This could be due to conservative Dems. liking Didier - or - it could be an "operation chaos" effect where some Democrats will deliberately vote for Didier to defeat Rossi in the primary thinking that Didier would be an easier candidate for Murray to beat in the general. Since there is no serious Dem. challenging Murray, and because the Republican vote is being split three ways, Murray can safely encourage some of her voters to vote for Didier without fear of her not advancing to the general.
In any event, this poll is a shocker. It was always thought that Didier was a long shot against Rossi. However, these results show he has a real chance to finish second in the "jungle" primary and advance against Murray.