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Latest Roundup of Polls for Key Senate and Governor Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOur Friday roundup of polls and key governor and Senate races updates California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. You can find all the details and links to the polls under the state headings below. Check back here for more updates throughout the day. Alaska POLLS FROM THURSDAY: A new poll by Hays Research of the Alaska Senate race doesn't plug in incumbent Lisa Murkowski by name, but "write-in candidate" -- which is how she's running after her defeat in the GOP primary -- leads the field ...
Latest Roundup of Polls for Key Senate and Governor Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOur Friday roundup of polls and key governor and Senate races updates California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. You can find all the details and links to the polls under the state headings below. Check back here for more updates throughout the day. Alaska POLLS FROM THURSDAY: A new poll by Hays Research of the Alaska Senate race doesn't plug in incumbent Lisa Murkowski by name, but "write-in candidate" -- which is how she's running after her defeat in the GOP primary -- leads the field with 34 ...
Latest Roundup of Polls for Governor and Senate Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyHere's a roundup of polls from across the country on the Senate and gubernatorial races. Updated so far today are Florida, Maine, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania. In the Main governor race, a Critical Insights poll has an independent candidate catching up to the Democratic nominee in a contest where the Republican is comfortably on top. Check back here for more updates throughout the day. Alaska POLLS RELEASED WEDNESDAY: Incumbent Lisa Murkowski is tied with Joe Miller, who beat her her for the GOP senate nomination, at 37 percent each with Democrat Scott McAdams at 23 percent, ...
Roundup of Senate and Governor Races in 14 States
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyHere's a roundup of polls released Tuesday for Senate and governor races in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. California Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer is leading Republican Carly Fiorina by 48 percent to 44 percent in the Senate race with 3 percent preferring some other candidate and 5 percent undecided. Last week, Boxer had led by one point. Ten percent of Boxer supporters say they could change their minds as do 8 percent of Fiorina backers. (Fox News/Pulse Opinion Research, ...
GOP's Paul LePage Leads Democrat Elizabeth Mitchell in Maine Governor Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Paul LePage holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Elizabeth Mitchell for the governor's seat in Maine being vacated by Democrat John Baldacci, according to a Critical Insights poll conducted Sept. 13 for Maine newspapers. LePage, mayor of Waterville and head of a discount store chain, leads Mitchell, a state senator, by 38 percent to 25 percent with 11 percent for independent Eliot Cutler, whose involvement in politics had mostly been with Democrats, and independent Shawn Moody, owner of a chain of auto body shops. Twenty-one percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4 ...
Maine Governor's Race: Another Test of the Tea Party Movement
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne of the campaigns in which the Tea Party movement and conservative activists have reared their heads with initial success, and has not received the attention of some other similar races, is the contest for Maine governor in which Paul LePage, the mayor of Waterville and a former lumber and paper company executive, came out of nowhere to beat seven rivals for the GOP nomination. He swamped the closest contender by a 2-1 margin. That has set up a race between the most conservative candidate in the Republican field against a distinctly liberal Democrat, state Senate President Elizabeth ...
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