Poll: Can Corcoran’s Senate race survive DWI conviction?
Corcoran
While the rest of us were preparing for the holiday weekend, State Rep. Michael Corcoran quietly pleaded guilty last week to driving while intoxicated.
Initially, Corcoran’s attorney said he would fight the charges, stemming from a February traffic stop in which Corcoran refused to take a blood-alcohol test.
The St. Ann Democrat faces 40 hours of community service and two years probation. (Nothing about the suspension of driving privileges, though.)
Yet Corcoran has showed no signs so far that he intends to let the conviction hinder his future ambitions, winning the state Senate seat currently held by University City’s Joan Bray, who reaches her term limit next year.
Corcoran faces former State Rep. Sam Page and St. Louis County Council member Barbara Fraser in the Democratic primary. Will they make an issue of the DWI? Can Corcoran still win the race?
Take our poll below.
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If he would have “manned up” and taken responsibility for his actions from the get-go, I think he could have a case to continue on in his quest. Since he chose first to try to weasel out, no he should be booted to the curb.
Unless of course his conviction gives him street cred with the democrats….
This will be such a non-issue in terms of Corcoran’s political viability as
Democrats will overlook anything.
Look at Teddy Kennedy, it didn’t hurt him….
he once steered, flew and floated a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.
NO ONE TRUST THIS POLL. The fact that he can only survive like “Bush” is absurd. From a media literacy and polling standpoint this poll holds ZERO weight because it is unfairly worded. For it to be a fair poll it should only offer “Yes” or “No” that is it.
What a joke of a poll.
What does George Bush have to do with this? This has to do with a Missouri Democratic Candidate, this isn’t even close to Bush’s 1976 conviction… AND Corcoran ISN’T even close to being a republican.
This Poll is ridiculous. I’d never vote for Bush but would vote for Corcoran since he is a Democrat. DWI or not.
Jonathon, you really didn’t expect someone at the Post to pass up a chance at taking a swipe at a Republican did you?
Jake easily could have left it at a yes or no question, but chose to go gutter. Nice job Jake.
Gutter is right. This poll is gutter. The poll is worded so poorly just from the standpoint of respectable journalism. You are right Amazedbythelunacy, the post would take a swipe at republicans but apparently they take swipes at anyone and forget everything the learned in Journalism school about ethics, practices, and standards.
Amazedbythelunacy:
While everything you said is true, you have to give Jake a little room here… like everyone else he’s working hard to keep his job at the Post… and well, as we have seen by his writing here in the blog he’s not the best writer they’ve got… so he has to go with bashing every Republican he can find… even in a story that has no Republican in it… you know… like this one.
Come on where is a failed reporter going to go? Jake loses this job he’s done.
(And what does this comment have to do with the topic? About as much as George Bush does to be sure.)
If a campaign wrote this - it would be called a “push poll”.
Corcoran wasn’t going to win the primary even before the DWI.
This Poll is ridiculous. I’d never vote for Bush but would vote for Corcoran since he is a Democrat. DWI or not.
— Sam
10:53 am July 7th, 2009
I was right. It does give him “street cred” with dems.