By FITSNews || In the latest example of the pressing need for education reform in South Carolina, a new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster – who is literally dumber than that Palmetto tree – is currently leading the GOP primary field in the race to succeed S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.
According to the results of a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday, McMaster has the support of 21 percent of likely GOP primary voters. S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer came in second in the survey with 17 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett at 14 percent and S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley at 12 percent.
Nine percent of respondents said they supported someone else while a whopping 29 percent were undecided, meaning that the race is still wide open three months before GOP voters go to the polls on June 8 to select their nominee.
From the poll:
McMaster is viewed very favorably by12% of primary voters and very unfavorably by four percent (4%).
For Bauer, very favorables are 11% and very unfavorables 21%.
Eleven percent (11%) have a very favorable view of Barrett, while seven percent (7%) regard him very unfavorably.
Haley is seen very favorably by eight percent (8%) and very unfavorably by two percent (2%).
The survey also found that 59 percent of S.C. Republicans approve of the job Gov. Mark Sanford is doing, while 39 percent disapprove. Prior to his scandal last summer, Sanford’s approval ratings among Republican primary voters had been in the upper eighties.
The poll also found that 51 percent of Republicans want their party to be more like U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, while 32 percent want the party to be more like U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
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By Bookyt March 9, 2010 at 10:37 am
Haley should bow out now, she has soiled herself with Sanfraud!!
By TERESA March 9, 2010 at 11:06 am
I like Haley. However I fear that she is to close to the Sanford Mess -South carolina has been put through the ringer with their issues and I’m sure the peoples of SC is looking foward to moving on and hopefully upward. ‘Here’s to better days ahead no matter who win SC!!
By evaray107 March 9, 2010 at 11:18 am
In the latest example of the pressing need for education reform in South Carolina…
…my favorite journalist does not know what “literally” means.
These poll results are the opposite of what order should exist.
By Crooner March 9, 2010 at 11:35 am
The real shame is that one of these idiots will win.
Haley has to hope that most primary voters have never flown on an airplane if she expects to sell that lie that she can’t remember what class of service she was in on an international flight.
I’d like to say electing McMaster with his thick southern accent- acceptable in those Fritz Hollings’ age and above- would be a setback for our national image but can it really be set back further than “soul mate” “you lie” and “Grandma said don’t feed strays” already have?
By SC Moderate March 9, 2010 at 11:44 am
This poll is nothing more than a name ID survey (with the exception of Bauer- who is somewhat polarizing). I don’t think McMaster has a shot of even making it to the runoff. And although I do not agree with all of Haley views, I don’t think she will be hurt by the Sanford connection.
I still feel fairly certain that we will see Bauer and Haley in the runoff.
By WorkingTommyC March 9, 2010 at 11:56 am
Haley should have been higher in the polls by now. If this doesn’t energize the campaign, nothing else will.
Bauer is getting a bump from his name being heard more around the state from the ads jumping on him for his TARP vote–the reason I’ll be voting against him. Well, I’ll vote against him based on that vote and the fact that he is acts like a sociopath. Who just stands there and keeps speaking when you can’t be heard over people booing you–and YOU have a microphone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QsY2r7HbTM
Crooner: You and your other handles are sounding like a broken record. You must have never flown on a plane if you don’t know business class and first class are the very same seats in the first class section. It’s the flunkies in the Commerce Dept. who handled the accounting end of it and the amount paid which is the only difference between business and first.
By Jen March 9, 2010 at 12:22 pm
WorkingTommyC: It’s Barrett not Bauer that voted for TARP. Get your facts straight if your going to vote!!
By Ynotfirst March 9, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I think writing in a great candidate is the best idea. McMaster sucks.
Barrett is worse. Andre is good as gone since he believes poor people don’t even need to be fed.
And Sheheen…. don’t get me started.
They are all a bunch of liars.
By William March 9, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Haley is done she should pick somone to endorse and move on.
By colleen March 9, 2010 at 1:51 pm
It is unfortunate that Nikki has not told us where she sat on that plane to China. It is not so much as to know exactly where she sat, but the point is she lied and you cannot afford to have a lying politician for a governor.
By richard johnson March 9, 2010 at 1:51 pm
when i flew to china while in college, i had bought a ticket at a discounted student rate. it was on JAL and they overbooked the flight, and my ticket was upgraded to business class for free. on the way home i flew coach. let me tell you, 13 hours on a plane in business class is impossible to forget in comparison to coach. this race is between mcmaster and barrett. barrett will win. he has the combination of title/prestige, southern accent/background, and unlike the others he hasnt distinguished himself as an utter buffoon and a nationally renowned laughingstock. he has that tough, no nonsense and completely unrepentant southern attitude that SC republican voters cant resist. the more they hear mcmaster speak in comparison to barrett, the more credible barrett will be to their sensibilities. just mark it down now. barrett has already won this thing. unless jenny sanford announces her candidacy as an “independent” after the republican primary LOL.
By Roger Roger March 9, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Why doesn’t Haley drop out and challenge Eckstrom for Comptroller? It would be a smart move, Comptroller seems to be better fit for her strengths right now and what she’s running on (governor in SC is more of a figurehead/leadership position, not a policy person). After some years as comptroller and some real experience, she runs for governor. Seems like a win/win.
By Moniker Lewinsky March 9, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Haley was a non-starter from the beginning, except on this site.
By proudofsc March 9, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Haley, give it up.
By Another Comment March 9, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Seems hard to get past the “I dont remember if I was in coach or business” Seems like a flat out lie in my opinion. There is no way possible you wouldn’t know if your knees are in your chin after sitting for 13 hours!! I just flew back from London a month ago and other parts of Europe about 9 months ago. On both flights 3 different sections, cattle car, business and first. Most definitely a difference between first and business (seats are different, spacing is different and menu etc) and light years difference from coach.
I dont know enough about her politics to have an opinion of her, but this screams of dishonesty and evasion.
By Billy Bob March 9, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Which is the best candidate?
1) McMaster
2) Bauer
3) Barrett
4) Haley
Answer = False
By WorkingTommyC March 9, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Jen:
I knew that, I just got the B-names mixed up.
Thanks for being kind enough to correct me on that, even if you were somewhat nasty in your manner of doing so. =:>)
Understandable mistake, though: if I’m not looking at them, it’s hard to tell the good ol’ boys apart from their politics.
By WorkingTommyC March 9, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Another Comment:
I’ll just repeat what I’ve already stated to Crooner since you didn’t bother to read and understand it:
“You must have never flown on a plane if you don’t know business class and first class are the very same seats in the first class section. It’s the flunkies in the Commerce Dept. who handled the accounting end of it and the amount paid which is the only difference between business and first.
Now, Amanda, quit “flat-out” lying yourself.
By Witty March 10, 2010 at 1:03 am
WorkingTommyC pull your head out of Nikki Haleys pussy a second jezz, can you be anymore obvious, the bitch lied when asked point blank so just move on and accept she lied we have.
By WorkingTommyC March 11, 2010 at 11:54 am
Very unwitty, Witty.
I’ve never said she was perfect. But I’ve been in a situation myself that I could not have told you how much my ticket cost nor what “class” it was because someone else took care of the arrangements.
She never claimed it was “coach” which would not have been in the first-class compartment of the plane, Miss A. You and others are either moronic, which, granting you the benefit of a doubt, I think not, or, you’re purposefully twisting reality–much more likely and desperate.
Unless you’re really inhumanly idiotic, you’re unintentionally revealing to the world that you ain’t got squat to attack her character with. I mean, really, who the hell cares about what kind of Priceline.com deal the SC Commerce Department made on the airplane tickets?
This is in stark contrast to:
1) McMastah the bribe-taking rabid dog who goes after the whores on Craigslist.com–and LOSES (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/23/south.carolina.craigslist/);
2) Bauer, the poorly bred pilot who lands on airfields too short to take off again from and then nearly kills himself and his passenger trying to do it anyway;
3) or Barrett, the TARP bill supporter who voted to bail out the mega-rich under Bush and who now runs commercials that instead deny straw man accusations that he supported the stimulus under Obama when no one has ever accused him of supporting Obama.
See some humor now? We’ve got three good ol’ boy clowns running against Nikki Haley.
The joke will be on all of us if one of the indistinguishable good ol’ boys gets elected. And the tragicomedy of corruption and free spending will be financed out of YOUR wallet (among many others). That will be the only satisfaction I have if Nikki should lose: watching the likes of you get flushed down the toilet with the rest of us by the corrupt elites elected into the governor’s office and to the statehouse.