Posts Tagged ‘Ron Sparks’
First Post Run-Off Public Poll Has Bentley with 20 Point Lead
Rasmussen Reports today released the first post-run-off poll in the race for Alabama governor: Robert Bentley (R) - 55% Ron Sparks (D) - 35% Undecided - 7% These numbers are not much different from the numbers the same polling firm got just before the Republican run-off (56-37). There are a couple of things that should be of concern to [...]
Hello Governor Sparks – The Upside Down World of Alabama Politics
If the results of yesterday's primary run-offs in Alabama confirmed nothing else, they confirmed that we live in an upside down world in Alabama politics. Two months ago, everyone knew that Artur Davis and Bradley Byrne would be competing as the respective nominees of their parties for governor. Everyone was wrong. Artur Davis lost the [...]
Why Sparks Should Fear Bentley
Editor's Note: This is the 2nd contribution from TWAY_Paul, I will continue to note posts that are not written by the editor as long-time readers get used to the transition. I took a look at the primary results (those listed on AL.com June 02, 2010—likely those figures have since changed slightly) to make a proportional comparison of votes [...]
New General Election Match-Up Poll Numbers from Rasmussen
Rasmussen Reports has done an interesting thing with the governor's race in Alabama. Just as they did back in March, they are only releasing the results of their polling around possible general election match-ups, not who people will choose next Tuesday in the primary. Still the changes in the results are particularly interesting to me. Ron [...]










