CT-Sen: Blumenthal Still Up Big

Quinnipiac (5/24-25, registered voters, 3/9-15 in parens):

Richard Blumenthal (D): 56 (61)

Linda McMahon (R): 31 (28)

Undecided: 10 (10)

Richard Blumenthal (D): 55 (62)

Rob Simmons (R): 28 (26)

Undecided: 13 (10)

Richard Blumenthal (D): 59 (64)

Peter Schiff (R): 25 (21)

Undecided: 13 (13)

(MoE: ±2.9%)

If Quinnipiac is to believed, it looks like Richard Blumenthal has weathered the storm of his Vietnam flap with remarkable ease, only losing a handful of points off of his ample margins from March. Indeed, Quinnipiac asked a number of specific questions on the issue, finding that, by a margin of 53-35, voters were satisfied with Blumenthal’s explanation of the matter, and that, by a 54-38 margin, voters believe he misspoke rather than lied. A full 61% say that the issue isn’t impacting their preferences in the race one way or the other, while 33% say that it’s made them less likely to vote for Blumenthal. While this flare-up has not been pleasant at all, it certainly starting to look like the weight of the issue has been overstated.

Meanwhile, Quinnipiac also polled the GOP primary. Keep in mind that half of this sample was polled before Simmons pulled the plug on his own campaign:

Rob Simmons (R): 23 (34)

Linda McMahon (R): 49 (44)

Peter Schiff (R): 11 (9)

Undecided: 15 (12)

(MoE: ±6.5%)

And we also have some gubernatorial primaries:

Ned Lamont (D): 41 (28)

Dan Malloy (D): 24 (18)

Undecided: 30 (44)

(MoE: ±5%)

Tom Foley (R): 37 (37)

Mike Fedele (R): 11 (13)

Oz Griebel (R): 5 (7)

(MoE: ±6.5%)

26 thoughts on “CT-Sen: Blumenthal Still Up Big”

  1. Let’s see… Quinnipiac has Blumenthal up by 25 points over McMahon, Rasmussen has him up by only 3 points.

    Gee, I wonder who’s full of shit here.

  3. I used to think the popular Blumenthal was untouchable. A Elliot Spitzer type AG without the hookers.

    But the whole lying about his military service thing has really changed my opinion on this race.

    To me it shows that Blumenthal isnt a very good politician or candidate and that he has the potential of being a Martha Coakley type gaffe prone machine.

    Now add in the $50 million McMahon will throw in to point out all of Blumenthal’s flaws and to try and force him to make more mistakes and this election could get ugly.

    At the very least McMahon’s money and Blumenthal becoming the butt of even Joe Biden’s joke will force Blumenthal to have to raise a lot more money for this race than anyone would have thought he needed before the NY Times theft of valor story.

    I dont put too much stock in this poll and I think as time goes by you will she Blumenthal’s numbers start to go down.

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