QU Poll: Undecided leads in Gov race (CT)

WTNH Television ^ | 01/21/2010 | Puppage

[Puppage]

Hamden (WTNH) - Connecticut voters are undecided right now on who they want to see as Connecticut's next governor, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday morning shows.

44 percent of Democratic voters say they are 'undecided' on a candidate. The leader among the candidates is former Senate candidate Ned Lamont, who gets 27 percent of the support. He's followed by Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, who has 11 percent.

It's even more up in the air on the Republican side, where 59 percent of voters are undecided.

Among those with a preference, 17 percent support former Ambassador Tom Foley and 8 percent support Lt. Governor Mike Fedele.

"With most of the candidates largely unknown, voters aren't expressing a preference in the gubernatorial primaries yet," said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Doug Schwartz said in a news release.

The dynamics of the governor's race changed when Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz jumped out of the governor's race and into the attorney general's race.

In head to head matchups, both of the Democrats hold a lead over the Republican candidates, the poll shows.

* Lamont edges Foley 38 - 36 percent

* Lamont tops Fedele 41 - 32 percent

* Malloy beats Foley 37 - 33 percent

* Malloy leads Fedele 37 - 31 percent

"Two Greenwich millionaires - Foley and Lamont - are leading the pack for the nomination for Governor. At a time when a lot of Connecticut families are hurting because of the tough economy, how will that play," Schwartz said.

In the race for attorney general, Bysiewicz leads that race by a large amount at 62 percent. The other announced Democrat, former state party chair George Jepsen, has 11 percent.

"Despite the controversy over whether she has been in 'active practice' as an attorney for 10 years, which broke as the poll was in the field, she is the clear favorite over the virtually unknown George Jepsen in the Democratic primary," Schwartz said, "and her favorability numbers have remained high. But if this story doesn't go away, this could change."

QU pollsters surveyed 1,594 Connecticut registered voters between January 14th through the 19th. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points. More details of the poll are at Quinnipiac.edu

[Puppage]

Lamont is the Dennis kucinich of CT. God help us!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Lamont is a literal Stalinist, following in the footsteps of his moonbat relative, Corliss Lamont. The upside if he gets elected, he will literally scare the $hit out of CT and they’ll be running to the GOP before he’s barely out of the gate. He’ll make Zero look like Alan Keyes.

[dangus]

The fascinating news is that the lead of Lamont, who just ran statewide for senator, is only 2% over the relatively unknown Foley. That sounds like Foley has a very strong chance of winning. I’m moving CT from “likely Dem” to “tossup.”