Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Carter vs Deal for governor of Georgia

A new Rasmussen poll of 750 likely voters in Georgia, taken just after the recent primary races, shows challenger Jason Carter leading incumbent Nathan Deal by 48% to 41%.  It's only one poll, and it came before Deal fully pivoted from his primary opponents to focus on his opponent for the general election.

Deal cites his winning 72% of the vote for the Republican nomination as evidence of his popularity.   Carter responds by pointing out that one in four Republican voters chose someone else other than their sitting governor, which isn't very good.

I think Nathan Deal has reason to be worried.   

He's also not being very smart to talk about changing the whistle blower laws -- when a jury has recently awarded $700,000 to the former executive director of the ethics committee that was investigating him and charged that she was forced out of her job for doing just that.

Being experienced at manipulating governmental systems to his advantage, Deal has undoubtedly covered his tracks very well, so that the dirty work can't be traced directly to him.    But the people aren't going to ask: "is he technically clear."   They're going to ask:  "How did he manage to cover up his dirty work?"

Ralph

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