Posted on 10/20/2010 6:48:19 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A new poll in Pennsylvania's hotly contested race for U.S. Senate shows that Democrat Joe Sestak has apparently wiped out Republican Pat Toomey's lead.
The Muhlenberg (MYOO'-len-berg) College/Allentown Morning Call poll released Wednesday shows Sestak supported by 44 percent of likely voters to Toomey's 41 percent. The numbers include people who are leaning toward voting for a candidate but haven't entirely made up their minds.
Fifteen percent remain undecided two weeks before the election.
Independent polls in recent weeks showed Toomey with a slight lead. Toomey and Sestak are vying to replace five-term Sen. Arlen Specter, whom Sestak beat in the May primary.
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46 Dem, 46 Rep doesn’t match the enthusiasm gap. I’ll believe it when I see it. Toomey wins.
He took his lead for granted for too long. I wouldn’t say he’s done, but he’d better get his campaign in high gear quickly.
Another College poll? dubious but concerning.
Polls, polls, polls - don’t believe a word of them.
I am so sick of them that I do actually spend the time to talk to them when they call - and then I give them every wrong answer I can think of. If enough people started doing that, eventually they’d become so unreliable that they’d go away.
My point has and will always be this - if you need a poll to tell you how to vote, you shouldn’t be voting at all!
Fifteen percent of LIKELY voters are undecided with only 2 weeks to go??? I really don’t think so.
Rasmussen had Toomey up 10 points on Oct 12
He has been coasting and expecting to win in a walk. I simply don’t believe this poll and would like to see someone else’s(with proven track record) results before I buy the hype.
Republicans have the enthusiasm, but Dems still have a 1 million voter registration edge in PA. An even split is probably accurate, or even generous to the GOP.
WaPo reports?
I don’t believe it.
Once again... the Pennsylvania Tease.
Rasmussen released that poll on Oct 14th and I’ll take a Rasmussen poll over a never heard of it poll any day of the week.
We expected the race to tighten, but this seems to have caught a lot of people by surprise, because it happened so quickly. Toomey should've known this state likes to "act" conservative until the final weeks of the campaign, so he should be aggressive out there. What's his advertising been lately?
Beware of Psych ops, 2 weeks to go, its war.
Before you throw in the towel my Nattery Naboob of Negativity ;)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610993/posts
As Jim Geraghty explained at The Campaign Spot, the PPP survey puts Sestak ahead only by playing with the numbers:
The sample in the last poll in Pennsylvania from Public Policy Polling before today: 46 percent Democrat, 44 percent Republican, 9 percent independent/other.
The sample in the new poll in Pennsylvania from Public Policy Polling from today: 48 percent Democrat, 41 percent Republican, 11 percent independent/other.
Way too many conservatives have grossly underestimated how attached perhaps a majority of Americans are to the social welfare state. When nearly half the nation pays no income taxes and huge numbers are now dependent on government, it is folly to think we were just going to breeze through this election cycle.
Democrats WILL turn out. In many states the left is using the early voting periods to make sure they get their people to the polls. Many of these Senate races will be extremely close - including this PA race. There are going to be some great wins on November 2, but also some extremely disappointing defeats. Everyone not only needs to vote, they need to make sure to bring at least one other person with them.
I tend to think that there has been some tightening, and it is due to the runup in stock prices. It’s been the October Surprise.
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