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It’s not a surprise that South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is getting heat for not being a doctrinare conservative. What is surprising is how some on the far right are basically using hearsay to try to destroy the Senator.
The blog FITSNews is reporting that two polls are show support for Sen. Graham tanking among conservatives. Okay, but then the writer doesn’t go into details about these polls. Here is what they say:
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s public support is collapsing in South Carolina – driven by a wholesale revolt among the GOP electorate and a steady erosion of his support amongst independents.
Already consistently loathed by a solid third of GOP voters, Graham’s recent leftward bent – including his co-authoring of a controversial “Cap & Tax” proposal supported by President Barack Obama and liberal Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) – has him locked in a “terminal free fall,” according one prominent Republican consultant.
“A chunk of the GOP has always detested him, but in the last month a damn has broken,” said the consultant, who was granted anonymity to discuss the impact of two recent polls that were conducted in South Carolina (one allegedly by Graham’s own advisors). “More Republicans now oppose Sen. Graham than support him. Independents are also deserting him in huge numbers.”
Even more troubling for Graham is there doesn’t seem to be a way out of the box. In fact, both polls reportedly showed that the more the national liberal establishment and local environmentalists rally to Graham’s defense, the worse things get for him.
There seems to be a lot of holes here. All we are given are shadowy sources. Maybe it’s just my journalistic training, but I tend to be very wary of stories that rely soley on sources. How do we know this is on the up and up? How is this verifiable?
This has not stopped some of the conservative blogosphere to pick up this story as if it is fact. But we don’t know if this is true or not. It might be. But it could just be baseless gossip.
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OK, where is the attribution to Media Matters and crew. Most of what I read here are attempts to drive a wedge in the Republican party. We are wise to this. We actually hope the interlopers that have assumed leadership of the party over the last 12 years and driven it over the cliff with the “moderate ” non-sense you closet Democrats beleive. Nice try.