Coattails: Obama’s coattails should be helping Musgrove more, shouldn’t they?
In three statewide races, Musgrove has averaged winning 49.3 percent of the vote.
So the question is if Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was supposed to have coattails that helped Musgrove in his Senate campaign, why does the Rasmussen poll show Obama and Musgrove drawing the same 43 percent of the vote while McCain (56 percent) actually shows more support than Wicker (52 percent)? If anything, it appears that this poll shows McCain with more coattail in Mississippi than Obama.
It’s only one poll. But it sure blows a sizeable hole in the notion that Obama’s coattails give Musgrove any better chance at winning this election than he’d have standing alone — for the numbers show Musgrove actually had a higher percentage of support in three prior elections without Obama than he has now.
Sid Salter
Clarion Ledger
9/8/8
