IN-Gov: Daniels Leads by 16 in New SUSA Poll

Not looking so hot. SurveyUSA (9/28-29, likely voters, 8/16-18 in parens):

Jill Long Thompson (D): 37 (38)

Mitch Daniels (R-inc): 53 (52)

Andy Horning (L): 6 (3)

(MoE: ±3.8%)

Sigh.

But at least these numbers from the same poll are trending in the opposite direction:

Barack Obama (D): 45 (44)

John McCain (R): 48 (50)

(MoE: ±3.8%)

I’d be freaking out if I were a McNap fan right now.

(Thanks to Blue Indiana for flagging these nums.)

22 thoughts on “IN-Gov: Daniels Leads by 16 in New SUSA Poll”

  2. That if we could win this race,we could get 60 seats in the Senate.

    I think Obama will look for a high profile Republican to put in a high profile place in his cabinet and Lugar and Hagel would be the obvious choices. If it was Lugar, JLT would appoint some Democrat to fill the seat and we’d have a better shot at 60.

  4. I phonebanked for Obama last week.  The campaign said it was really important to find out whether people we called were supporting Congressman Baron Hill (who’s leading his race against former Congressman Mike Sodrel in their fourth straight matchup) but not so important to find out whether they were supporting Long Thompson.

    More recently, there’s been a table on the IU campus registering people to vote, with signs for Obama and Hill, but none for Long Thompson.  I finally went up to one of the volunteers and asked her what was going on.  She said that as far as they knew, the Long Thompson campaign had given up and wasn’t contesting the area.

    Bloomington is one of the most liberal areas in the state.  If Long Thompson’s given up here, she’s given up on the election.

  5. Governor “Midget Mitch” Daniels would have been extremely vulnerable if the genereal election had fallen earlier in the cycle. He made some unpopular choices, and several disparate groups were annoyed with him (toll roads, time change, and the idea that maybe it wouldn’t be all that bad to let Illinois pollute Lake Michigan).

    Unfortunately, the anger seems to have faded, and Indiana’s Democratic bench is thin, thin, thin, as far as potential candidates with statewide appeal.

    At this point, I could see Sheriff Ellsworth with a shot at the Senate seat Lugar will relinquish in 2012. The only other good thing I see within grasp, for Hoosier Democrats, is the hope of recapturing a majority of the lower house in the state legislature. If I still lived in Indiana, that last is the goal I’d be focused on.  

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