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Poll commissioned by Pearce has him ahead
Steve Pearce (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
Former Republican Congressman Steve Pearce is touting a poll he commissioned that shows him with a slight lead over incumbent Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., in this year’s 2nd Congressional District race.
The poll has Pearce up by 4 percentage points – 48-44 percent. When considering only those surveyed who knew of both candidates, the lead widened to nine points – 51 percent to 42 percent.
The poll was conducted by the Tarrance Group, a Republican polling and research firm. It surveyed 401 likely voters between February 16-18, and has a margin of error of 4.9 percent, so Pearce’s lead is within the margin of error.
“These results prove what I have been hearing from New Mexicans as I travel the 2nd Congressional District,” Pearce said in a prepared statement. “New Mexicans believe the Teague- and the Pelosi-led Congress are on the wrong track, and their big government spending is a problem, not the solution.”
Harry Teague
Despite trailing Pearce, there is still good news for Teague in the poll. According to National Journal’s Hotline On Call blog, Teauge continued to outperform the Democrat generic ballot, meaning that some voters who are turned off by the Democrat brand still feel some connection to the Southern New Mexico incumbent. The generic ballot has the Republican ahead 47 percent to 37 percent.
Democratic Party of New Mexico Executive Director Scott Forrester told NMPolitics.net Tuesday night that he is not surprised that voters recognize Pearce’s name.
“What is surprising is that Steve Pearce’s own poll says he has less support today than he had in the past four elections,” Forrester said. ”He’s barely at 48 percent today, but Congressman Pearce got nearly 60 percent of the vote in his three campaigns for the House, and even though he lost his Senate race by 22.7 percent, he won CD2 with 52 percent of the vote.”
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I think before you vote for this former Bush-ite, Steve Pearce, you should watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4MGUSJF7ZQ
Maybe there should be a poll of veterans. Former Congressman Pearce has a miserable record regarding veterans and their needs. He had received a zero rating — out of a possible 100 — from the Disabled American Veterans for failing to support health care legislation for veterans. Veterans said they have met with Pearce before and received promises of help, but those promises were never fulfilled. As he said numerous times he is against all entitlement programs even ones for our men and women who served their country.
Wedum59, that is an ignorant assessment of the situation. In that logic, Tom Udall did the same thing to 1st CD when he gave up his seat to run successfully for the Senate. In politics, experienced office holders must relinguish there current offices to seek higher office, it’s called “job promotion” and it is perfectly legal and accepted. What shouldn’t be allowed is being able to seek the vice-presidency and your U.S. Senate seat at the same time i.e. Joe(s) Lieberman and Biden.
Pearce deserves his former seat because he approached his job with pragmatic conservatism and common sense.
And wedum59, maybe there are voters out there who don’t think as you describe. I would bet there are more who regret voting for Harry than those who don’t.
No kidding, wedum. How he has the audacity to believe he should be re-elected in a district he poorly represented then bailed on for “bigger diggs” is simply astounding. His obvious sense of entitlement to holding public office is embarrassing. Doesn’t Steve Pearce know how to do anything else for a living?
Maybe there are voters out there who think Pearce demonstrated his lack of interest in the 2nd CD when he flouted common sense and gave up the seat to run for the Senate. Teague didn’t even enter the race until Pearce abandoned the district. As the late great Molly Ivins wrote, “You got to dance with them what brung you.”