Posted on 10/08/2012 10:20:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
Dem Heitkamp Pulls Even In North Dakota Senate Poll
By Sean Lengell - October 8, 2012
Democratic Heidi Heitkamp, once considered a long shot to win North Dakota's open Senate seat, is locked in a dead heat with GOP candidate Rep. Rick Berg, a new poll says.
The results of a Mason-Dixon survey released Monday afternoon show both candidates with 47 percent of the vote, with 6 percent undecided.
But Mrs. Heitkamp is "recognized favorably" by 46 percent of the respondents, compared with 42 percent for Mr. Berg. The Democrat's "unfavorable" rating of 35 percent is two percentage-points lower than her opponent.
A similar percent of voters have "neutral" opinions of the candidates; 20 percent for Mr. Berg and 18 percent for Mrs. Heitkamp.
The telephone survey of 625 likely voters has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percent.
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My best guess is it is a combination of North Dakota’s oil-boom economy being much, much better than the national average and the fact that Heitkamp is running with strong pro-energy stances. She’s been supportive of the Keystone Pipeline and favors fracking. She seems to be a pretty liberal candidate in all other respects, but I gotta think her support for the goose that’s laying golden eggs in North Dakota (i.e. oil) is winning a lot of support.
It’s up to Berg to say she will vote to make Harry Reid the Senate Majority leader and he’s been the leader the last 6 years. I would also go after her ties to Obama and she will support many of his policies including Obamacare continuation and all the tax increases on the middle class that come with it.
It’s up to Berg to say she will vote to make Harry Reid the Senate Majority leader and he’s been the leader the last 6 years. I would also go after her ties to Obama and she will support many of his policies including Obamacare continuation and all the tax increases on the middle class that come with it.
That support of energy will go out the window on the way to DC..
You can bet the farm on it.
Demorats will say whatever they need to say to get your vote, North Dakotans, then they will screw you for as long as they can.
Wise up.
It is hard to believe a conservative state like this would vote in a rat.
Have to have enough RATS left in the Congress to keep socialized medicine. Not that I am into conspiracies or anything. Heh
tell me the internals (which they didn’t) then we’ll talk
this is coming from a polling firm that produced a wild off the wall poll several months ago.
Their polls stick out for some reason.
Oh, I don’t doubt that. At best, she’ll pull a Joe Manchin if she gets in. I’m just sayin’ that it’s a good position to take if you want to get elected in a state where oil has lowered the unemployment to 3.7% and brought the biggest jump in average incomes seen in a long, long time.
Must be a state full of dumbasses to believe that she’d actually keep her word! She’d be required not to. No way dems would allow her to vote against “green”
"Stated that they were likely to vote" is not what constitutes a "likely voter" in anyone's formula except Mason-Dixon's.
A poll of adults, which tell us within +-4% of how adults will vote on election day. Fortunately, adults don't vote, voters do. MD's poll is actually bad news for the lib, because she's now DOWN a point from the last (bogus) MD poll.
ANYONE voting for ANY Democrat Senate candidate has a DEATH WISH.Our country needs to get a super majority in the Senate to try to solve these VERY BIG PROBLEMS!
Just like with all dems, the campaign rhetoric about supporting the oil industry will give way to an “epiphany” .. meaning a shift toward bogus “green energy” as soon as she is elected. I wish the people of ND would open their eyes. They`ll rue the day they elected her.
Unfortunately, even with a win in ND, it`s looking like the best the GOP is going to be able to get is a 50-50 tie. Things were looking hopeful for awhile.. then along came Todd Akin`s gaffe of the decade.
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