IL-14: Foster up 7, according to SUSA

This was on the front page at dailykos this morning:

IL-14: Foster up 7, according to SUSA

Subscription-only Roll Call has a story up today with breaking news: Democrat Bill Foster leads Republican Jim Oberweis, 52% to 45%, in the race for Dennis Hastert’s old seat in Illinois’ 14th District.

Rollcall:

The House seat recently vacated by former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is in danger of flipping to the Democrats in Saturday’s special election, according to a poll conducted this week for Roll Call.

In the poll of 517 likely special election voters, conducted by Survey USA exclusively for Roll Call on March 3 and 4, physicist Bill Foster (D) led dairy company executive Jim Oberweis (R) 52 percent to 45 percent. The poll had a 4.4-point margin of error.

Foster appeared to test particularly well with women and independent voters, who preferred him by a 3-2 margin. The survey also suggested Foster had locked down his party’s base, taking 97 percent of likely Democratic votes and perhaps stealing 10 percent of likely GOP votes.

There’s other good stuff in the dkos story, too (and some interesting comments as well)

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Remember that IL-14 is Speaker Hastert’s old district.  What a prize this would be for Democrats.

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