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October 17th, 2012
By ddepledge
By ddepledge
Former Gov. Linda Lingle’s Republican campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday released the results of an internal poll that showed her trailing U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono by single digits.
The poll, conducted by Voter/Consumer Research of Washington, D.C., had the Democrat Hirono up over Lingle 47 percent to 43 percent. The poll was taken among 1,200 likely voters statewide from Oct. 9 to Oct. 16. The margin of error was 2.8 percentage points.
Hirono’s internal polls — and other public-opinion polls — have the Democrat with a double-digit lead over Lingle.
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October 17th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Sounds like a dead heat. This is why campaigns (like Hirono’s, like Case’s, blast from the past) shouldn’t waste their time doing — what ends up in — biased polls by their camps.
Don’t forget that Lingle beat Hirono in her previous gubernatorial run against Mazie. Lingle going end up getting those same votes. So there.
October 17th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
What’s with 47%? Sounds like a certain “republican” assuming and approximating.
Assuming the 47% who did not pay enough taxes, vote for lingle?
I think it should be only 1% who voted for lingle.
1% that don’t care about the 99%.
Polls are unscientific and open access.
October 17th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I cannot wait for Linda Lingle to lose. The Hawaii GOP is is in a sorry enough state without Lingle officially becoming the Dan Inouye of the state’s Republican Party. Unfortunately, it’s likely that she won’t just go away after losing the bid for Akaka’s seat in the US Senate. Then, LL starts the ‘deathwatch’ for the other Dan and lies in wait for her next chance to gobble up all GOP resources for her run to replace Inouye.