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'18 Midterms: Dems win House by largest midterm raw vote margin ever
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violent crime going down? private prison beds not being filled when a guaranteed occupancy rate is set via contract? reclassify what a violent crime is.
Can't wait for October 9th. First early voting day and I'll be out there. fukking hate blackburn
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http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today...tedQuestionnaire_September2018_1808311750.pdf
NBC/Marist poll: It’s a neck-and-neck Senate race in Tennessee
NBC/Marist poll: It's a neck-and-neck Senate race in Tennessee
Democrat Phil Bredesen gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, compared with 46 percent for Republican Marsha Blackburn.
by Mark Murray / Sep.06.2018 / 4:59 PM ET
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen speaks at a ceremony in Chattanooga on Oct. 29, 2015.Erik Schelzig / AP file
WASHINGTON — Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Marsha Blackburn are running neck and neck in Tennessee’s Senate contest, despite the state’s deep-red hue, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll of Tennessee.
Bredesen, the state’s former governor, gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, while Blackburn, who is a current member of Congress, gets 46 percent. Only 5 percent of likely voters say they’re undecided.
Among the larger pool of registered voters, Bredesen leads Blackburn by 4 points, 48 percent to 44 percent, but it’s within the survey’s margin of error.
This is the third-straight NBC/Marist poll released this week — following surveys of Missouri and Indiana — showing competitive races that could very well decide control of the U.S. Senate in November.
Democrats must gain a net of two Senate seats to flip control of the chamber, and Tennessee represents one of their best pick-up opportunities (after Arizona and Nevada).
Bredesen and Blackburn are vying to succeed Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who decided not to run for re-election.
Among likely voters in this Tennessee contest, Bredesen leads among Democrats (97 percent to 0 percent), African Americans (86 percent to 8 percent), women (55 percent to 40 percent) and independents (49 percent to 45 percent), while Blackburn leads among Republicans (86 percent to 9 percent), men (54 percent to 40 percent) and whites (53 percent to 42 percent).
This NBC/Marist poll shows that Tennessee, which President Donald Trump won by more than 25 points in 2016, remains a solidly Republican state. The GOP enjoys a 12-point lead in congressional preference among likely voters, and Trump’s job rating is slightly above water — at 47 percent approve, 43 percent disapprove.
But Bredesen is staying competitive because of his popularity. Sixty-one percent of likely voters have a positive view of the former Democratic governor, versus 22 percent who have a negative view (+39).
By contrast, Blackburn’s fav/unfav rating is 46 percent positive, 36 percent negative (+10).
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“Trump carried Tennessee by 26 points in 2016, and the state looks red again in 2018 with one possible exception,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Democrats got an unexpected gift with the retirement of Senator Corker, and that race is a tossup right now.”
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s race for governor — to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Bill Haslam — isn’t as competitive.
Republican businessman Bill Lee holds a 13-point lead over Democrat Karl Dean, the former mayor of Nashville, 53 percent to 40 percent, among likely voters.
Top issues in Tennessee: the economy and health care
Asked which issue will be the most important factor in deciding their vote, 27 percent of likely voters in Tennessee answered the economy and jobs; 20 percent said health care; and 13 percent said immigration.
Asked their views raising tariffs, 43 percent said they hurt the economy by raising the cost of goods, compared with 30 percent who said they help the economy by protecting American jobs.
And asked what message their vote for Congress will send, 48 percent said it would be for more Democrats to serve as a check and balance to President Trump, versus 46 percent who said it would be for more Republicans to help pass Trump’s agenda.
The NBC/Marist poll of Tennessee was conducted August 25-28 of 940 adults (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.0 percentage points), 730 registered voters (plus-minus 4.5 percentage points) and 538 likely voters (plus-minus 5.1 percentage points). Respondents were contacted both by landline and cell phone.
At this point, Democrats need to stop thinking a "sense of normalcy" is returning soon. If they got them to sign on to a pledge like that, then cool. But now that Republicans have shown what they are about, Democrats better not take any higher ground shyt on this if Republicans were hacked. No more stringing yourself up while the other side acts watonly
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Former New Hampshire House speaker Bill O’Brien, now a lobbyist for the Edison Electric Institute, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will host an invite-only meeting with state lawmakers one day before a key vote on overriding Governor Chris Sununu’s veto of a bipartisan net metering bill.
The bill, SB 446, would expand New Hampshire’s net metering program and allow for more local communities and businesses to share in the cost-saving benefits of larger renewable energy projects. It’s been backed by Republican leaders, including House Speaker Gene Chandler and Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley.
Sununu’s veto of the net metering bill, and his campaign contributions from electric utilities like Eversource that have opposed it, have become targets for the Democratic candidates for governor Molly Kelly and Steve Marchand. Marchand is among the more than 1,000 candidates nationally who have signed the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge backed by environmental groups. The pledge includes campaign contributions from Eversource.
Clearly their responses were timed to coincide with tomorrow's midterms. Smart move.