AZ: Rocky Mountain Poll: McCain favored, but high undecideds

[Miles]

Article.

Primary:

Mc­Cain: 38%
Ward: 12%
Van Steen­wyk: 2%
Me­lus­k­ey: 1%
Not sure: 47%

General:

McCain (R) - 37%
Kirkpatrick (D) - 31%
Not sure - 32%

[Ebsy]

Wretched numbers for McCain. Arizona is a definite, if unlikely, pickup opportunity for Democrats.

[Skye]

Way too many undecideds.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Fool's gold for Democrats.

I would like to believe that, but in anti incumbant year, in which Vitter, who is like an incumbant running in La, due to him being Senator running in an R governorship race, most incumbants are GOPers, even the mighty McCain maybe def by Kirkpatrick. It will be a monumentum upset, but AZ is a Latino state, having Trump on ticket, isnt beneficial.

Kirkpatrick has a chance.

[Holmes]

Yeah Kirkpatrick has a *chance*, but it doesn't mean she has any *real* chance of winning. The only way I can see her winning is if Ward wins the primary and Trump is the Republican presidential nominee. But even then, enough racist crazies will come out in Arizona to give Ward the win.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Yeah, the real question here is not who will win but why is Kirkpatrick doing this? 37 percent of Republicans are still undecided in this poll (and they will come home for McCain), but only a quarter of Democrats and 33% of Independents (McCain is winning them in this poll). Hes an incumbent Republican running in a reddish state against a liberal Democrat. So in the end, McCain will win comfortably. Period.

I wouldn't be so certain that McCain wins, he will be running on the same ticket as Trump, whose plan is mass deportation.  Kirkpatrick starts out as underdog, but unlike the presidential race, McCain is the incumbant. Congress, R's in charge have toxic approvals. This can be an anti incumbant year, for Sente R's. McCain, Portman & Ayotte. As well as Kirk & Johnson.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Pbower shows, he has a 41 percent approval.

[5280]

If the Democrats were smart, they would try to unseat Flake in 2020.

[Maxwell]

If the Democrats were smart, they would try to unseat Flake in 2020.

You mean 2018?

[International Brotherhood of Bernard]

If the Democrats were smart, they would try to unseat Flake in 2020.

Yes, Democrats must alter space and time so that Flake's seat is up in 2020 instead of 2018! That is their only path to victory

[pbrower2a]

Pbrower shows, he has a 41 percent approval.

Some poll shows a 41% approval. Really, I am shocked that Senator McCain has such a low approval in a state in which Republicans should be sure things statewide. But I don't live in Arizona, so I can't figure why he is doing so badly. Maybe someone who better knows Arizona can tell us whether he shows signs of irrelevancy or senility.   

Arizona voters will decide whether Senator McCain is past the sell-by date. Contrast Senator Grassley (R-IA) who is also very old, but has an approval rating of 50% as a Republican in a state that has voted Democratic in all but one Presidential election since 1988. Any doubt that I have about a re-election of Senator Grassley is actuarial.