For your afternoon pleasure, we have some polls from Scott Rasmussen with his view of the US Senate and Gubernatorial races in Alabama.

GOVERNOR – ALABAMA (Rasmussen)

Bradley Byrne (R) 50% Artur Davis (D) 33% Tim James (R) 49% Artur Davis (D) 35% Kay Ivey (R) 43% Artur Davis (D) 36% Artur Davis (D) 44% Roy Moore (R) 40%

Bradley Byrne (R) 43% Ron Sparks (D) 35% Tim James (R) 38% Ron Sparks (D) 34% Kay Ivey (R) 39% Ron Sparks (D) 33% Ron Sparks (D) 40% Roy Moore (R) 35%

US SENATE – ALABAMA (Rasmussen)
Richard Shelby (R-inc) 59%
William Barnes (D) 32%

These polls were done March 29th among 500 likely voters. We are supposed to see a poll for Wyoming as well.

Following up on their primary poll yesterday, Public Policy Polling released some new numbers for the General Election for the gubernatorial race in Alabama.

GOVERNOR – ALABAMA (PPP)

Bradley Byrne (R) 48% Artur Davis (D) 32% Tim James (R) 42% Artur Davis (D) 33% Kay Ivey (R) 44% Artur Davis (D) 33% Roy Moore (R) 43% Artur Davis (D) 37%

Bradley Byrne (R) 43% Ron Sparks (D) 30% Tim James (R) 38% Ron Sparks (D) 33% Kay Ivey (R) 39% Ron Sparks (D) 33% Roy Moore (R) 42% Ron Sparks (D) 37%

This poll was done March 27-29 among 1270 registered voters.

The snow is already come down in bunches and the Federal Government has already been closed for yet another day tomorrow. Ignoring the snow in the Mid-Atlantic, a polling group called Baselice & Associates, Inc. has released a new primary poll for the state of Alabama on the Republican side showing who is leading in the bid to replace the incumbent Republican Bob Riley as Governor.

GOVERNOR – ALABAMA – GOP PRIMARY (Baselice & Associates, Inc.)
Bradley Byrne 20%
Roy Moore 17%.
Tim James 8%
Robert Bentley 4%
Kay Ivey 3%
Bill Johnson 2%

The only two I have heard of out of that group are Byrne and Moore. They also collected some numbers for a 2012 Presidential primary in Alabama.

PRESIDENT – ALABAMA – GOP PRIMARY (Baselice & Associates, Inc.)
Mike Huckabee 33%
Sarah Palin 23%
Mitt Romney 12%
Ron Paul 5%
Tim Pawlenty 2%

This poll was done February 3-4 among 1007 likely voters.

Public Policy Polling has new numbers out for the gubernatorial race in Alabama and it gives mixed results for the parties.

GOVERNOR – ALABAMA (PPP)

Bradley Byrne (R) 39% Artur Davis (D) 35% Artur Davis (D) 37% Tim James (R) 35% Artur Davis (D) 39% Kay Ivey (R) 31% Artur Davis (D) 41% Roy Moore (R) 38%

Bradley Byrne (R) 41% Ron Sparks (D) 27% Ron Sparks (D) 32% Tim James (R) 32% Ron Sparks (D) 33% Kay Ivey (R) 29% Roy Moore (R) 38% Ron Sparks (D) 36%

Other than Davis, Byrne and Moore, I don’t have the foggiest idea who any of these people are and am too lazy to look it up. This poll was done June 2-5 among 667 registered voters.

By the way, the PPP blog claims “We’re going to be putting out a pretty stunning poll on a Midwestern Governor up for reelection next year early next week.” I’m curious who it may be….

Democratic Congressman Artur Davis is pondering a run for Governor of Alabama and he released a new poll from a Democratic polling firm that claims he is either tied with or ahead of three potential GOP candidates, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

GOVERNOR – ALABAMA
Artur Davis (D) 42%
Kay Ivey (R) 42%

Artur Davis (D) 42%
Bradley Byrne (R) 42%

Artur Davis (D) 44%
Jack Hawkins (R) 39%

Kay Ivey is the current State Treasurer while Byrne is the Chancellor of the two-year college system in Alabama and Hawkins is the Chancellor of Troy University. No specific dates were given for the poll other than it was done earlier this month among 600 registered voters.

The current Governor of Alabama is Republican Bob Riley, who can’t seek another term.