Global Warming Takes Center Stage in Lindsey Graham Primary

September 9, 2013, James M. Taylor, J.D.

Lindsey Graham’s support for global warming restrictions is taking center stage affecting the incumbent U.S. Senator's bleak poll numbers in his bid to survive a primary challenge in the 2014 elections.

Graham is well below the 50 percent threshold in a recent poll of likely Republican primary voters in South Carolina, conducted by Landmark Communications and Rosetta Stone Communications. Only 42 percent of likely Republican primary voters said they support the incumbent Graham. Graham’s poor support among Republican voters is remarkable considering Graham’s primary opponents have relatively little name recognition throughout the Palmetto state.

Graham’s primary opponents are hammering the incumbent for frequently straying from conservative principles, and they are hammering Graham particularly hard for his longstanding support for global warming restrictions…. Graham appears to have his work cut out for him, and his support for global warming restrictions is about as helpful as a millstone tied around the neck of a shipwreck survivor trying to tread water in the middle of the ocean.......To Read More…..