SurveyUSA (10/28-29, likely voters, 9/24-25 in parens):
Alice Kryzan (D): 34 (37)
Chris Lee (R): 48 (48)
Other/Undecided: 18
(MoE: ±4.1%)
Sigh — what an ugly picture this is. The “Other/Undecided” vote is especially high for a SUSA poll, and perhaps that number includes a few folks who are intending to pull the lever for Jon Powers, who is still stuck on the Working Families Party line. Indeed, a full 20% of Democrats are in that column.
SSP currently rates this race as Lean Republican.
This is just awful news. If we cant get big wins in the House and Senate, there really is not any use in electing Obama since nothing will get done.
Not to nitpick the DCCC, but with Lee on three ballot lines, and Powers stuck on the WFP line, Kryzan has a very hard road. This one isn’t over, but I think they have spent a lot here to the detriment of other contests.
Charlie Cook just moved this race to tossup and Larry Sabato is predicting us to win it.
where undecideds are falling off the fence like Humpty Dumpty (don’t worry, they don’t need to be put back together), and polls are tightening.
And now it’s critical that we stand behind our candidates.
As for KY-Sen, I got an e-mail from Crit Luallen, by the way!
James do you know if Ivan Moore is doing a final poll of the AK races or not?