Daily Polling Updates…..Oct. 5, 2018

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1. jamesb says

   October 5, 2018 at 10:55 pm

   FiveThirtyEight piece on Tennessee US Senate race….

   …In general, Bredesen’s 2018 campaign aesthetic is “don’t mention I’m a Democrat too much.” He ran an ad that was a compilation of all the nice things that Tennessee Republicans have said about him, and he’s made sure to get it on the record that he would vote against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in any Democratic caucus elections. Bredesen has made an ad that shows him shooting skeet and touting the fact that as governor, he had an A rating from the National Rifle Association (he doesn’t mention that now he has a D grade) and said he would turn down campaign help from Hillary Clinton. The guy wants no part of the #resistance label.

   Blackburn, on the other hand, is doing what she can to bring the Senate race onto national terms. A polished politician who was elected to Congress in 2002, Blackburn has found a home in the president’s wing of the Republican Party. She gave a speech endorsing Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention, saying of Trump’s nomination, “let’s get ’er done,” a slightly incongruous invocation of Larry the Cable Guy. She’s also voted with Trump 92 percent of the time and her Senate bid received an early endorsement from the PAC of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon….

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2. CG says

   October 6, 2018 at 11:34 am

   Vermont Governor

   http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/10/vermont-governor-race-of-day.html

3. CG says

   October 7, 2018 at 12:02 pm

   Vermont U.S. Senate

   http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/10/vermont-us-senate-race-of-day.html