McMahon Closes To Within 3
Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon (R) has closed to within 3 points of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) in the increasingly tight CT Senate race, according to a new Quinnipiac Univ. poll out today.
Blumenthal leads McMahon, 49% to 46%, a margin that is half as large as the 6-point lead he had just 2 weeks ago. Blumenthal remains popular, with more than two-thirds of likely voters approving his the job he is doing as AG. But Blumenthal is being weighed down by the unpopularity of Pres. Obama, particularly among independent voters.
Independents in the poll disapprove of Obama's job performance by a 38% to 56% margin. Those same independents break for McMahon, 49% to 44%.
Perhaps as a pre-emptive measure, the Blumenthal camp e-mailed reporters Monday night with the results of an internal poll that showed Blumenthal leading McMahon, 52% to 40%.
The polling is consistent with Quinnipiac's recent surveys in other states. Since they switched to a likely-voter model after Labor Day, their polls have shown significantly better results for the GOP than their registered-voter polls prior to the holiday.
Blumenthal continues to attract more affirmative voters, with 75% of his supporters saying that they were voting more for him than against McMahon. But McMahon is benefiting from voter dissatisfaction, as 44% of her supporters say that their vote is more against Blumenthal than for the Republican.
More voters have seen McMahon's TV ads (95%) and direct mail pieces (87%), while fewer voters say they've been contacted by the Blumenthal camp via TV (87%) or their mailbox (30%).
But McMahon may be reaching the point of over-saturation. A majority of likely voters (56%) says her TV ads are more annoying than informative, while only 42% say the same thing about Blumenthal's ads.
The Quinnipiac poll was conducted Sept. 21-26, surveying 1,083 likely voters, for a margin of error of +/- 3.0%. The Blumenthal internal poll was conducted Sept. 20-23 by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. That poll surveyed 606 likely voters, for a margin of error of +/- 4.0%.
FINALLY the world is seeing what a dishonest jerk that Blumenthal is! He has destroyed Connecticut and its businesses- God help us if he goes off to destroy the rest of the nation!
ps Dick WE will NEVER forget about your military lies...God has a funny way of working things out now doesn't he?