The most recent Landmark/RosettaStone survey of likely Republican Primary voters in South Carolina shows Lindsey Graham well below the 50 percent of the vote required to avoid a run-off election. The survey of 500 reveals that Graham does not reach 50 percent of the vote in a general primary or against any of his three opponents in potential primary runoff elections.
John Garst, President of Rosetta Stone Communications said, “These numbers should be of concern to the Graham campaign. The senator fails to reach 50 percent of the vote against any of his opponents. Graham does not break 40 percent among voters who think of themselves as evangelistic conservatives, and that group makes up 58 percent of the primary electorate.”
Mark Rountree, President of Landmark Communications, said “Senator Graham has developed a serious problem with male voters and conservative voters in particular. His support among those demographic groups is weak. But worse for Senator Graham is that he currently does not even win an outright majority in a potential runoff primary election, despite the fact that his opponents are not even well known to the general public.”
The survey of 500 likely Republican voters was conducted on Sunday, August 25 and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.
Landmark Communications and Rosetta Stone Communications are political firms based in Atlanta, Georgia. The firms regularly conduct and release public opinion surveys regarding politics. The firms jointly conducted the poll.
SC POLL: FINAL CROSSTABS (.xls)
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Excellent.
*Rubs hands together in anticipation of November 2014.*
Graham may be below 50% in the poll, but that is because UNDECIDED gets more than 28% of the responses. ‘Undecided’ won’t be on the ballot, so Graham needs only about 1 in 3.5 of the ‘undecided’ to win outright. That is not a tall order.
Most people know nothing about all three of the other candidates, so their totals are essentially the ‘Anybody But Graham’ vote, and they represent around 25% of the respondents.
Graham can’t afford any big mistakes, but he is not in serious danger — YET, based on this poll.
also, taking a poll (regardless of the office) 10-11 months before a primary is really worthless. at this point in time only the most die-hard politicos have any interest in polling numbers. vic is right with 28% undecided and the anti-graham vote at a combined 25%, the numbers aren’t there to cost graham any sleepless nights. once we get past football and the holidays, things will begin to change and quickly, until then this and any other poll is just political crack for politicos and the anti graham crowd.
Hard to believe anything on this site related to this race, as it is clear that this site is pushing Mace’s candidacy and thus is not a real journalistic site, as it is not presenting the news but manipulating the news.
Lindsey Graham will go down in history as a man who would sell out his country to get reelected. He is a war pimp who is pushing for the US to bomb Syria. Syria is not Afghanistan. They actually have surface to air missiles that can shoot down our planes. They have missiles that can reach our ships delivering missiles into Syria.
Regardless of what the Obama people and the neocons are saying. This could be a very deadly engagement. Say hello to $6 gasoline should Lindsey’s wet dream come true.
I voted for Lindsey Graham twice but never again!! If he wins the primary race he’ll have the ‘open’ primary and Democrats to thank. Nancy Mace will get my vote in the primary… and if Graham makes the general election I’ll cast my vote for the Democrat. Tim Scott for senior senator from SC in 2014!
First time I’ve seen poll results w/o the results. C’mon, man. Do a little investigative journalism instead of posting press releases.