By FITSNews || The battle for South Carolina’s “Fighting Fifth” Congressional District (sorry, we were channeling Stephen Colbert there for a minute) is one of five U.S. Congressional races that Democratic polling outfit Public Policy Polling is considering surveying this month.
In fact, the firm is currently holding an online vote to determine which district it’s going poll.
A vote to decide a poll? Talk about layers of democracy …
Anyway, since we’re curious to see whether or not Democratic digits (also) have incumbent U.S. Rep. John Spratt struggling mightily against fiscally conservative State Senator Mick Mulvaney, we went ahead and voted for the “Fightin’ Fifth.”
Just for “chips and giggles,” you know.
You can do the same by clicking here …
According to a recent voting analysis published by the Washington Post, Spratt has voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership in Congress 97.8% of the time during the 111th Congress. That tally includes key votes in favor of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion bureaucratic bailout, a “cap and trade” energy tax increase and most recently, Obama’s socialized medicine plan.
(See the Congressional record of Spratt’s votes in favor of those items by clicking here, here and here).
Spratt is also leading the fight to raise the U.S. debt limit to a ridiculous $14 trillion, and he voted just last month for another $150 billion bailout of state bureaucracies.
Mulvaney is one of only a handful of state lawmakers to earn an ‘A’ grade in the S.C. Club for Growth’s recently-released legislative scorecards. He’s currently leading the fight to block the implementation of ‘Obamacare’ in the Palmetto State.
By Just a good ole boy January 16, 2010 at 4:18 pm
FITS–Spratt is already running scared in SC5, as he should be. Mulvanney has something Johnboy hasn’t had in a longgggggg time…momentum. The general temperment around the 5th is Spratt is past his time. The problem is Spratt unlike Brown, in the 1st, doesn’t want to read (or refuses to see) the writing on the wall. November is 10 months away and that is a life time in politics but right now this could be considered a possible GOP pick-up in 2010…teg
By Danger, Will Robinson January 16, 2010 at 9:02 pm
PPP is a hard core lefty group out of Raleigh, NC. Not hard to figure out who they will show up in this race.
By fitsnews January 16, 2010 at 9:59 pm
No doubt. We just think it’ll be fun to see what the Lefty #’s are showing.
-FITS
By MulvaneyIsAJOKE January 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm
The only writing on the wall that needs to be seen is the fact tha John Spratt is unbeatable in the 5th. People can bitch, moan, complain, and make all the predictions they won’t, John Spratt will beat any competition hands down every day of the week, and twice on Sundays. All one must do is look at a map of the 5th and see what it is comprised of. The district is predominantly rural and Spratt takes care of his people by bringing our tax dollars back to us. Just because a few idiots chant and yell with ol’ carpetbagger Mulvaney doesnt mean that he is going to whip the state’s senior congressman. Anyone could put their name on the ballot an get in between 35 to 40% of the vote. Spratt will win so really stop with dubbing Mulvaney as our next Congressman, because he’s not.
By Oh No Not Again January 17, 2010 at 9:59 pm
I think Spratt wins again. It won’t be a landslide.
It will be close because the angry GOP in the district will come out in droves. The Dems in the district won’t be energized.
But the truth is, the Democrats here far outnumber the Republicans.
You see, York County isn’t indicative of the district.
Remember the analysis from the 2006 race?
Spratt could have given Norman 70,000 votes and still won. York County is a GOP county, and Norman couldn’t win it with endorsements from Dick Cheney and the entire GOP war lobby.
And Mulvaney has got some people shilling for him and throwing his name out there, but what has he done?
The thing most in his favor, that he was Sanford’s errand boy in the S.c. House, won’t work for him now that he’s had to distance himself from the Lov Gov not that he’s in the Senate.
His “effort” to prvent the impelementation of ObamaCare is unconstitutional, rather than, as some modern day closest secessionaists would have it, an affiirmation of the 10th Amendment. ANd it’s dead in the Senate last I heard, so I don’t understand why it’s being mentioned as something he is doing.
he tried it. He lost.
By Oh Yes? January 18, 2010 at 8:53 pm
@Oh No…
A couple of months ago you had Spratt by a landslide.
Now it is a a bold prediction of a narrow win, followed by personal slams on his opponent.
Sounds like somebody is getting nervous.
Rightly so.
By Tsunami January 20, 2010 at 8:13 am
Been to any Spratt Town Halls lately? That thing around Spratt’s neck is called a Pelosi.
BTW, PPP called the Mass. Senate race exactly. A Lefty no doubt, but his numbers are good.