New Poll Shows El-Sayed Has a 5-Point Edge Over Rogers
The paper doctor has better name ID, and 51% of likely independent voters have a favorable view of him
A new poll shows Democrats are likely to take Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, with most voters saying they view Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed more favorably than Republican Mike Rogers.
A Michigan Enjoyer poll of 600 likely general election voters conducted by Cygnal in conjunction with Beacon Research on Sept. 18-21 found El-Sayed has about a five point lead over Rogers.
Forty-five percent of respondents said they would vote for El-Sayed compared to 40% who said they would vote for Rogers in the general election.
Rogers was more unfavorable with voters: 49% of respondents had an unfavorable opinion of the Republican, with only 40% signaling a favorable view of him.
Similarly, 48% of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of El-Sayed, but 45% of voters said they saw him favorably, including 51% of independents.
That comes down to charisma. Abdul El-Sayed has a lot of screen presence despite his extremely short resume. It says a lot that he was willing to ape Blue’s Clues to talk about voting—he has a commitment to the bit of radical socialist.
He backs it up with constantly spewing his pie-in-the-sky Medicare for All pipe dreams on your timeline, in front of audiences, anywhere he can. It resonates big with the radical base of the Democratic party.
Voters in the Democratic party apparently were not dissuaded by El-Sayed’s botched response to the Hezbollah-linked attack of a Bloomfield Hills synagogue earlier this year when he said: “hurt people hurt people.”
Only 12% of Democrats said they had an unfavorable opinion of El-Sayed.
Rogers hasn’t really been exciting anyone. That shows up in the polling: 9% of respondents said they had no opinion and 3% had never heard of him.
Only 2% said they had never heard of El-Sayed. Love him or hate him, almost everyone knows he’s there, and it’s looking like the paper doctor has the edge in November.
Maybe it comes down to the machinery of the political parties, or maybe it means Republicans need candidates with charisma who can argue for something instead of just rail against their radical rivals.
