Rasmussen (5/13, likely voters):
Jim Slattery (D): 40
Pat Roberts (R-inc): 52
(MoE: ±4%)
Slattery is a former Congressman, and Schumer was thrilled to recruit him for this race. While this poll is surprisingly close, Slattery will have his work cut out for him if he hopes to get the extra ten points he needs here, especially when the same poll shows Roberts with a 60% favorability rating.
Still, this is an eye-opening result. This race has the potential to get interesting.
Much higher than I’d have expected. Roberts is a nut. lol James, there has been a lot of recent polling on Senate races around the country as of late, do you know anywhere, or maybe SSP could make a thread of the recent pollings for a lot of the races, kind of put them all in one place, all at one time. Because it seems like Democrats are doing surprisingly well in a lot of these races.
I exptcted Slattery to be down 20+ at this point. Guess I shouldn’t be so surprised Dems are competitive everywhere.
Rasmussen has Begich over Stevens by 2 points (47-45) in the AK Senate race. It isn’t up on Rasmussen’s main page, but another blog is reporting it, so it should be up soon.
http://uselectionatlas.org/FOR…
I had Kansas ahead of Kentucky and Nebraska. (And I think I’m going to bump it up ahead of a couple more now).
I don’t think Obama should pick Sebelius, but if he did, that might pull this one in.
Regardless, this one could indeed get interesting and close.
BTW, Washington Post’s Chris Cilizza (sp?) has put NC in his top ten most likely to flip senate seats column at number 9, putting it one notch ahead of Maine. It wasn’t in the top 10 at all last month.
Senate Guru is reporting that the PPI poll on the Hagen/Dole race shows that 55% of the undecideds are DEMOCRATS!
In the past week, we have excellent looking polls from Texas, North Carolina, Oregon, Maine, Kansas, New Mexico, and Alaska. We are destined for those 9 seats. I can feel it. This has been one hell of a week for us in the polls, the only seat that is not moving our away is Minnesota, and Franken just hired a new campaign manager, Stephanie Spriotch or something vaugely similar. She was Jon Tester’s campaign manager.
Damn it feels good to be a Democrat.
I love seeing these numbers but I won’t get ahead of myself in getting too giddy here. Slattery was certainly a very strong get for Schumer and the DSCC and he has the potential to be competitive, but there is a reason Pat Roberts has never been seriously challenged in his life and Kansas has not elected a Dem Senator since the days of the Great Depression.
Nevertheless, the fact that all of these races are narrow, at least at this point in time, portends terribly for the Republicans.