Release: Poll Shows GOP Ambivalence As Voters Tire of Double Talk

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March 18, 2010

Poll Shows GOP Ambivalence, As Voters Tire of Double Talk

While Arizona Republican voters are showing increasing division over which Washington insider they will settle for in the Arizona Republican U.S. Senate primary, Arizona Democrats are becoming more energized about Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman — a potential new voice for Arizona, who is “testing the waters” for a run for U.S. Senate.

A new Rasmussen poll shows vanquished six-term Congressman J.D. Hayworth pulling to within seven points of four-term Sen. John McCain. The poll shows McCain leading Hayworth 48 percent to 41 percent.

“McCain and Hayworth are counting on Arizona voters being distracted by foreclosures, layoffs, and the skyrocketing cost of medical care, but Arizona voters’ focus on these issues is why they are ambivalent about Washington insiders in the Republican primary,” Glassman said.

Both McCain and former six-term Congressman J.D. Hayworth are attempting a dubious ‘inside-out’ strategy, Glassman said. Bizarrely, both seem to be running ‘against Washington’ when McCain’s tenure in office spans three decades, and Hayworth spent a dozen years running up huge deficits while he was on the House Ways and Means Committee — the ultimate insider gig.

“No wonder Arizona Republicans are ambivalent about their two Republican candidates,” Glassman said. “Both are trying to create an image of something they are not. Both McCain and Hayworth would be better off if they owned up to their years in Washington and explain what they’d do with six more years in Washington.”

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