Poll: GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter up by 8 points despite indictment

[joshcryer]

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) holds an 8-point lead over his Democratic opponent despite being indicted on charges of misusing campaign funds, according to a new poll.

A Survey USA poll published Monday found that among likely voters in California’s 50th District who were surveyed, 47 percent plan to vote for Hunter, compared to 39 percent who favor Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar, if they are the only two candidates on the ballot. President Trump won the district by 15 points in 2016.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/403872-poll-gop-rep-duncan-hunter-leads-by-8-despite-charges-of-misusing-campaign

What does it say about these voters that they are willing to vote for a guy who is likely to be put in jail, possibly before ever taking office? This kind of thing is why it's so difficult to be like "oh, ok, you guys have good points." No! You are electing a criminal! An open and shut case which he can't ever survive.

Read the indictment people!

His Dem challenger needs to run an ad simply showing the indictment, in quick flashes, and telling people to read the indictment before they vote. It is absolutely ridiculous how much money they spent from the campaign fund.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This is why you may lose your home, everything you have.

To maintain racism , misogyny and the hatred of non xtians, many of your neighbors are willing to have everything taken from them.

They do NOT care about ANYTHING but racism, misogyny, and are embracing KGB to keep their interests alive.

[joshcryer]

3. I think you're absolutely right, it's tribal mentality.

And somehow the "Christians" are the ones who are pro-criminality. It's beyond belief. It's like Orwellian in the extent it goes.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yep, I told my neighbor last night

that the glue which binds the deplorables and tRump together is racism. I was discussing this I with my parents a few hours earlier. We all agreed that Hunters district will reelect him. We live in San Diego and his district is heavy duty Right Wing (deplorable galore).

[joshcryer]

8. I hope if he does get reelected he doesn't resign.

And runs his congressional seat from jail (yes, he is going to jail), forcing the GOP to be confronted with having to impeach him so the seat can be run.

Of course, I would bet money that Trump would pardon the dipshit.

So they'd have a literal convicted criminal working in congress.

[BigmanPigman]

10. They have so much in common...

kindred spirits/crooks.

[maveric]

13. "Klantee"

[Garrett78]

18. I've been saying for years that without racism the GOP would cease to be viable.

There wouldn't be sufficient support for right wing economic policy, right wing environmental policy or right wing health care policy if racism vanished or was significantly diminished.

The notion that Trump won due to (white) economic anxiety is one of the most absurd and damaging notions ever promulgated. There's a reason right wingers pushed that narrative. How sad that so many leftists bought the lie.

[brush]

34. What was Hunter up by before the scandal broke? That might tell us something.

[The Genealogist]

6. Fear and hate, that's all they have

They'd rather die on sinking ships of willful ignorance than vote in their best interest.

[wryter2000]

2. Anyone who think only the South has idiots

Needs to remember this.

[oberliner]

4. Edit: I get that by The South one generally means the South East

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So this district being so close to Mexico does not make it The South in that regard.

[tirebiter]

9. That's what the capital s is about

Kinda like farther v further, south is a direction, South is a concept.

[herding cats]

11. It's in the Western US.

Everyone knows that distinction in geography.

[oberliner]

15. OK

The South is not the South if it's in the West.

That seems very East Coast-centric.

[Garrett78]

20. There's the Deep South, and then there's the Southwest. Totally different dynamic.

But racism is the tie that binds.

[oberliner]

22. Fair point

I'll withdraw what I wrote.

[wryter2000]

19. People here usually put down the southeast

Mississippi, Alabama, et. al. I think most people knew what I meant.

[Downtown Hound]

7. The inner red areas of California are some of the most conservative in the nation

Fortunately, we here in the coastal areas greatly outnumber them.

I live in Santa Rosa, the city that nearly burned to the ground last fall in the wildfires. I had more than one person from the red counties tell me they were glad that my city went up in flames and that us "blue northerners had it coming."

Lovely people.

[joshcryer]

14. It's really just rural areas.

Everywhere. Rural areas just don't care about the goings on in the cities, they only care about themselves.

[BigmanPigman]

17. Ditto!

[Garrett78]

24. Yeah, the urban-rural divide is true across the entire country.

A large percentage of people who grow up in rural areas never leave home. No exposure to diversity of any kind.

[joshcryer]

25. It's unfortunate because they pay state taxes.

You'd think they'd want what's best for the state, but they only want what's best for themselves. It's why so many Republican states are negative income providers for the country. They want their cake and want to eat it too. They're basically leeches and they don't understand that if they contributed it'd be better for everyone including themselves.

[tman]

12. Survey USA told us Romney would win Florida by 6 points.

Just sayin'

[Turbineguy]

16. Republican voters want crooks in office.

"We cheat the others and pass the savings on to you!"

[jpak]

21. They would rather be Russian...

etc.

Yup

[Initech]

23. Stockholm Syndrome.

When you are part of the cult, you vote which ever way the cult wants you to vote - even if it's for the most hardened criminal scumbag possible.

[Pope George Ringo II]

26. It's worse than that.

His response has been to throw his wife and son under the bus. Geography aside, this is functionally the same kind of thinking which got Roy Moore all those votes.

[Kablooie]

27. To be indicted is now a badge of honor and a reason to vote for a candidate.

Because of Trump Republicans seem to have done a 180 on law and order and celebrate criminality.

They've openly said that they have to win the house in November because if Democrats win they will open investigations into Trump's crimes. They proudly proclaim that they will not allow any investigation into Executive branch crimes.


They have become the party that wants to replace democracy with criminality and anarchy.

[Solly Mack]

28. Stealing from others is a republican selling point.

[NCjack]

31. Stealing and affixing the blame on another is a Repug qualification for office. nt

[Solly Mack]

32. Yep. How you place the blame is a biggie.

[smirkymonkey]

29. This just makes me sick.

What is wrong with people in this country?

[JI7]

30. it might help if the dem opponent said some bigoted things

that might get them some of these voters.

[D_Master81]

33. A criminal Republican is better than a "librul"

in their minds. The propaganda makes them think that liberals are coming for their way of life.

[Liberty Belle]

35. Besides racism this is also a district with many Evangelical mega-churches

whipping the anti-abortion crowd into a frenzy plus you have the build-the-wall anti immigration folks.

The one Hunter voting block that *might" defect from him now are the military and veterans, since the indictment reveals he and his wife lied about buying items to benefit charities including some for disabled veterans, instead spending money on themselves.

While some of these folks may not be willing to vote for a Democrat, especially a Palestinian-Mexican-American, they may simply not vote for anyone in this race, which would help Campa-Najjar.

He may also lose some votes from women since he's throwing his wife under the bus, and even some men I've talked with are appalled at that. Plus the indictment reveals his philandering ways, though apparently that's no longer an issue with many Trump voters; it's only a sin if a Democrat does it.

Campa-Najjar's best tactic to win is to register as many progressive voters as possible and get them to the polls. The district does have large pockets of minorities especially Latinos and Middle Eastern immigrants. El Cajon, one of the biggest cities in the district, is a majority minorities.

The trouble is in the rural areas; the best tactic there is to persuade voters to withhold their votes to show their disapproval of a crooked candidate.