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Question: Which do you choose?
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John Walsh
 
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Natalie Tennant
 
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Michelle Nunn
 
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dmmidmi
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« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2014, 07:33:51 AM »

Just because their likelihood of winning aren't good, that doesn't mean they are overrated.  For example, Heather Wilson of NM was a VERY STRONG candidate for Senate in 2012, but she ran in a presidential year and was still very competitive. 

I think you need to better define "overrated" here.  Tom Kean Jr. for example was "overrated" when he ran for the GOP.  He should have been much, much more competitive and Menendez never even sweated during that race.

For the candidates offered up, it's a little difficult to separate the two.

Polling currently indicates a close race in Georgia, probably because Michelle Nunn is a stronger candidate than whatever a Generic Democrat is in Georgia. The question I believe you're asking is--as a candidate, is she so strong that she transcends Georgia's partisan lean, and will win in November?

That's a little difficult to separate from "Whose chances are overrated/underrated?"

Heather Wilson ran into the same problem as Robin Carnahan in 2010--probably a very good candidate in a neutral/better than neutral year for their respective party, but ran into a buzzsaw.
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« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2014, 07:52:26 AM »

What about Grimes?
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« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2014, 11:02:04 AM »


Well Grimes is doing way better than the three listed here
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« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2014, 01:06:42 PM »


Well Grimes is doing way better than the three listed here
I don't think she'll win, though.  President Obama is so unpopular in Kentucky that McConnell will pull it out, no matter how much people dislike him.
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« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2014, 02:50:35 PM »


Well Grimes is doing way better than the three listed here
I don't think she'll win, though.  President Obama is so unpopular in Kentucky that McConnell will pull it out, no matter how much people dislike him.
Grimes is no doubt an underdog, but she differs from these three in that she actually has at least some chance of winning.
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« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2014, 09:17:59 PM »

I can't remember hearing anything about  John Walsh.

I'll say Michelle Nunn.
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« Reply #31 on: August 02, 2014, 06:33:05 PM »

Maybe Michelle Nunn, but she may win the election.
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« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2014, 06:35:43 PM »

Natalie Tennant. She isn't electorally strong. She's just a stupid, unintelligent person. She isn't all that good on the stump. Not charismatic. And way too liberal for West Virginia.
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« Reply #33 on: August 02, 2014, 07:22:27 PM »

Definitely Walsh.
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« Reply #34 on: August 02, 2014, 09:59:24 PM »

Walsh isn't that great but Nunn is an embarrassment, clearly overrated, inexperienced, lack of issue knowledge, cardboard, no values, no real ideology, she's a cardboard cutout of a candidate spouting out staffer approved talking points, she'll crash and burn in the debates.

Nunn gets my vote for most overrated simply because the others are more or less expected to lose.
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« Reply #35 on: August 02, 2014, 10:08:19 PM »

Write In: Brian Schatz.

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« Reply #36 on: August 03, 2014, 02:25:15 PM »

Probably John Walsh, with Natalie Tennant not far behind. On the other hand, the most overrated Republican Senate candidates in this election cycle are Scott Brown, Ed Gillespie and Monica Wehby.
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« Reply #37 on: August 03, 2014, 02:50:44 PM »

It depends on what you understand by "overrated";

does it mean being incompetent or does it mean to be attributed too high chances?
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« Reply #38 on: August 03, 2014, 02:52:07 PM »

It depends on what you understand by "overrated";

does it mean being incompetent or does it mean to be attributed too high chances?

The latter.
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« Reply #39 on: August 03, 2014, 03:02:00 PM »

Okay, then John Walsh is the correct answer.
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« Reply #40 on: October 23, 2014, 07:43:29 PM »

Pretty hilarious in retrospect that people were saying Nunn over Walsh/Tennant.
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« Reply #41 on: October 24, 2014, 11:39:24 AM »

This thread is documented proof that we shouldn't quit our day jobs.
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« Reply #42 on: October 24, 2014, 11:43:58 AM »

Don't blame me, I voted for Walsh.
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« Reply #43 on: October 24, 2014, 11:44:19 AM »

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« Reply #44 on: October 24, 2014, 11:57:39 AM »

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« Reply #45 on: October 24, 2014, 12:08:36 PM »

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« Reply #46 on: October 24, 2014, 01:11:14 PM »

This thread is documented proof that we shouldn't quit our day jobs.

The Great Atlas Circlejerk is often incorrect, though if you look carefully you can find voices of reason and sanity going against the crowd who knew the truth all along
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« Reply #47 on: October 24, 2014, 02:00:54 PM »

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« Reply #48 on: October 24, 2014, 04:24:00 PM »

Uh...Nunn is still overrated. If not for the Perdue ad and outsourcing comment, she'd be down double digits. She isn't tied with Perdue because she's stellar in her own right.
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« Reply #49 on: October 24, 2014, 04:26:02 PM »

Uh...Nunn is still overrated. If not for the Perdue ad and outsourcing comment, she'd be down double digits. She isn't tied with Perdue because she's stellar in her own right.

Regardless, she's not competing against perfection in this poll, she's competing against Walsh (a guy who had to drop out for plagiarism and never got within single digits) and Tennant (who never got within single digits).
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