Just how far has John McCain's stock fallen? According to a recent Rocky Mountain poll, he could face double digit defeat... in 2010. Yeah, even in Arizona, his home state, his popularity is less than 50%. The Rocky Mountain poll has popular Governor Janet Napolitano beating him 47% to 36% head-to-head. Napolitano is popular (59%), and could help downticket Democrats with a strong showing. McCain, on the other hand, is tied to an unpopular war, an unpopular immigration bill, and a really lousy attendance record.
(h/t Pollster.com - about 6 days old but I was on vacation and no one else diaried about it)
UPDATE: I guess that's why McCain's considering applying for public financing. The 100 million dollars he had planned to raise didn't come through, so now he'll probably take 6 million in federal funds just so he retire his debt. Anyone else think he'll save some of the money he raises from here on out to protect his Senate seat in 2010?
[Napolitano] was ranked as doing an excellent or good job by 59 percent of those asked, and only nine percent gave her a poor or very poor rating.
The poll found that 76 percent of Democrats think she's doing an excellent or good job, while 51 percent of independents and 41 percent of Republicans give her that ranking.
In a hypothetical head-to-head race for McCain's Senate seat, 47 percent of those polled would vote for Napolitano, 36 percent for the sitting Republican senator, and 17 percent were undecided.
The poll, conducted by the Behavior Research Center of Arizona, was conducted between July 27 and Aug. 4 and has a margin of error of 3.9 percent.
Credit: AP, Aug. 21, 2007
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Should Gov. Napolitano run against McCain for Senate in 2010?
