WSB/IA poll: Oxendine (yawn) still leads GOP field
WSB-TV and InsiderAdvantage released a poll today showing the Republican race for governor largely unchanged over an April survey, except for a stronger performance by former congressman Nathan Deal of Gainesville.
Both John Oxendine and Karen Handel dropped slightly, but not beyond the margin of error. The poll does not show any improvement in the standing of Eric Johnson, the former senator from Savannah, despite several rounds of TV ads.
By the numbers:
John Oxendine: 23%
Nathan Deal: 15%
Karen Handel: 14%
Eric Johnson: 5%
Jeff Chapman: 2%
Ray McBerry: 2%
Otis Putnam: 0%
Undecided/No opinion: 39%
The stats: 423 likely voters contacted by automated phone calls, with a MOE of 5 percent.
The April IA survey:
John Oxendine: 26%
Karen Handel: 18%
Nathan Deal: 9%
Eric Johnson: 5%
Other 11%
No Opinion: 31%
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23 comments Add your comment
Jury Dell
May 20th, 2010
4:08 pm
Paving the way for King Roy. Slug it out.
Scott
May 20th, 2010
4:09 pm
So the 2 most corrupt in the bunch are leading in the polls…there is something very wrong about that
Jury Dell
May 20th, 2010
4:11 pm
Even the mere thought of Gov. Ox seems like a bad dream.
Jon
May 20th, 2010
4:15 pm
Round of applause for the upstanding representatives of the GAGOP.
Jury Dell
May 20th, 2010
4:18 pm
Who is Otis? Who cares. I’d vote for him before the two in the lead.
Red
May 20th, 2010
4:18 pm
So the IA poll is showing s different result than the last Rasmussen. Whoever are we to believe? And this sinks hopes of Johnson who keeps telling us he’s surging.
jd
May 20th, 2010
4:24 pm
Oxendine vs. Barnes. Sad. Whoever wins, the citizens of Georgia lose. KAKISTOCRACY. Enough said.
bart
May 20th, 2010
4:28 pm
What a sad commentary on the Republican Party in Georgia that the two leading candidates for Governor are both crooks.
DannyX
May 20th, 2010
4:32 pm
Think 3 Stooges, you will definitely see the possibility of an Oxendine win.
Sonny is Curly number one. Oxendine Curly number two.
If Ox wins the Republican nomination I see great ad potential here for Roy.
Anne
May 20th, 2010
4:42 pm
Is this the best we can do??? And Michael Thurmond running for a senate seat what the hell is next.
rod
May 20th, 2010
4:45 pm
I am no fan of Ox but I would rather have Stalin as the Gov than Bubba Barnes. We are still waiting on Bubba to release his Sunday Church visit schedule to Afirican American Churches as he does every election cycle.
Phil W
May 20th, 2010
4:50 pm
I’m pulling for Handel. Maybe I should pull harder.
No Ox, Noo Raw Deal, Nooo Linger Longer Johnson, Noooo King Roy
May 20th, 2010
5:09 pm
The 2 biggest crooks in 1 & 2, pray for Georgia..
THE NAME SAYS IT ALL
pcBobby
May 20th, 2010
5:14 pm
This is disturbing news. The media need to focus on Ox’s and Deal’s ethics problems, but then again, few citizens even care – how sad.
Bubba
May 20th, 2010
6:44 pm
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Bubba
May 20th, 2010
6:45 pm
Well, Georgia survived Marvin Griffin and Lester Maddox, so I guess we could survive whoever is next.
The General
May 20th, 2010
6:47 pm
WOW 14 posts and I agree with them all. What a sad four years Georgia has in store for its citizens, no matter who wins the general election.
I can’t believe the GOP has had eight years to get ready for this and the best they can come with is this bunch of yahoos.
We’re in deep doo-doo folks.
John Konop
May 20th, 2010
7:55 pm
Barnes has to be laughing at the GOP! Does GOP want Barnes to win?
Deal has financial scandal and was out raising money with Mark “the sexual predator” Foley.
OX we all know that issue ie the post!
TW
May 20th, 2010
9:54 pm
Looks like the Ox is gonna be guarding his own back door in prison by the time the election rolls around
Tom
May 21st, 2010
10:33 am
Ms Handels deeds have not come to the surface yet, but they will-they always do.
AngryVoter
May 21st, 2010
2:48 pm
jd – you are sadly correct.
This poll was before yesterday’s headlines and yet Ox could not pull even a quarter of Reps. We know he has no support among Dems, and we know three out of four Reps don’t want him. How can the GA Rep Party let this happen? How difficult is it to find one competent person the people of GA could support. The Dems are all but giving away the election by likely nominating Barnes and the Reps are too incompetent to take it! Sad on all counts.
Wounded Warrior
May 21st, 2010
11:15 pm
lester Maddox was the best gov of GA
steve
May 28th, 2010
2:38 pm
Unfortunately in politics, it is so easy to point to other’s faults. Reminds me of the story I heard a preacher say. He said that if today’s media had existed at the time of Christ they would have reported his walking on water as, “Jesus can’t swim.” There are no perfect candidates, so go with who you agree with on the issues, IMO.