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Good and Bad Numbers for Sen. Cantwell in New Elway Poll
First the bad news for U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, who's up for reelection next year: A new Elway poll finds her "Job Performance" rating at 52 percent "negative" to 42 percent "positive." (It was nearly the exact opposite in 2005, also a year out from reelection, when her numbers were 52 positive vs. 38 negative.)
The good news for Cantwell? The GOP doesn't have any promising challengers. In Elway's imaginary open primary against a batch of Republicans including: U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert; former KIRO TV anchor Susan Hutchison; Tea Party activist Clint Didier; and Port Commissioner Bill Bryant—Cantwell wins big with 47 percent of the vote.
The four Republicans are left fighting over the crumbs with no one breaking 10 percent.
[pullquote]The good news for Cantwell? The GOP doesn't have any promising challengers.[/pullquote]
(Reichert beats both Gov. Chris Gregoire and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee in another recent poll on the 2012 governor's race.)
Cantwell, who has made a name for herself in her second term as a fiscal populist (she voted against the Wall Street bail outs and, attacking from the left, clashed with President Obama and Secretary Treasurer Timothy Geithner over the financial reform law), handily won reelection in 2006 over Safeco CEO Mike McGavick 56.9 to 39.9.
The good news for Cantwell? The GOP doesn't have any promising challengers. In Elway's imaginary open primary against a batch of Republicans including: U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert; former KIRO TV anchor Susan Hutchison; Tea Party activist Clint Didier; and Port Commissioner Bill Bryant—Cantwell wins big with 47 percent of the vote.
The four Republicans are left fighting over the crumbs with no one breaking 10 percent.
[pullquote]The good news for Cantwell? The GOP doesn't have any promising challengers.[/pullquote]
(Reichert beats both Gov. Chris Gregoire and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee in another recent poll on the 2012 governor's race.)
Cantwell, who has made a name for herself in her second term as a fiscal populist (she voted against the Wall Street bail outs and, attacking from the left, clashed with President Obama and Secretary Treasurer Timothy Geithner over the financial reform law), handily won reelection in 2006 over Safeco CEO Mike McGavick 56.9 to 39.9.
