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Poll: Sestak up 3 against Toomey
UPDATE APPENDED (See bottom)
Democrat Joe Sestak continues to enjoy some post-primary momentum, holding a three-point lead over Republican Senate rival Pat Toomey, according to a new poll.
The Daily Kos/Research 2000 survey released this week showed Sestak edging Toomey by three points, 43 percent to 40 percent, with 17 percent of voters still undecided.
Sestak’s late-campaign surge before his primary win against Arlen Specter has left him holding narrow leads against Toomey in public polls months before the general election.
The survey of 400 likely voters, conducted May 24 to May 26, had a margin of error of four percent.
UPDATE: In June 2010, Daily Kos disavowed all polling data provided by Research 2000, alleging fraud. As of July 2010, Research 2000 had denied wrongdoing but taken down its Web site.
May 28, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Tags: Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey













EWard
May 31st, 2010
Bailey & Sick
The shuttle will drop off your meds.
Listen to these two buffons. They can’t defend Sestak or Obama’s record. It’s all insults & mocking the other side. Hey if you want a race baiting party run by spoiled kids vote for the Democratic candidates.
Intelligentvoter
May 31st, 2010
Conclusion after reading al comments:
dems and rep have both bankrupted this country. While Sestak may have voted for some things that are undesireable to many republicans this is the first guy we have seen in a long time- perhaps since Sen John Heinz- to vote on issues not strict party politics. John Heinz was disliked by both sides of leadership and had the backbone to stand up to presidents of his own party at time when they were wrong and very often voted moderately,which is perhaps why he was so loved as Pennsylvania’s greatest leader. Go Joe.
Lee Levan
May 31st, 2010
So the Republican campaign will be about whether the Democratic Party, a political party, played politics. And surely the Republican Party comes to this debate with lily white, clean hands.
I’m sure the voters will care much more about inside political baseball (which was played against, not by, Sestak) than creating jobs to replace the millions lost as a result of the Republican recession.
And definitely more than the abhorrent abdication of regulation of the oil drilling industry by oil men Bush and Cheney resulting in one of, if not the worst, man made environmental catastrophes in history, which will affect this country for generations.
Oh, and without a doubt, more than the fact that it was Pat Toomey who earned his fortune by working to deregulate Wall Street, leading to the recession, and who remains an opponent of requiring accountability from the oil industry.
Yes, voters absolutely have the luxury of casting their votes about the lack of purity in politics instead of about their livelihood, the future of their children, and the fact that a vote for Toomey is a vote for a return to the Bush-Cheney era.
bill healy
May 31st, 2010
Ed your the only one claiming Senator Sestak and President Obama will do nothing about the gulf.Seems to me that during the reagan,bush,bushed, admins only republican priorites and citizens were represented, with all manner of legislation pushed through the congress and rammed down our throats. Elections do have consequences, espec.when we hold Pres. elec. and the only votes that count are by the Supreme Court.
Ed H.
May 31st, 2010
EWard-
You make the fallacy that health care reform was done against the wishes of the public, yet they elected Obama to do just that in 2008. Never mind the fact that popular support for HCR only went under 50% AFTER the public option was taken off the table. Seems to me that you should do some fact checking first, buddy.
Bruce Bailey
May 31st, 2010
Dammit, EWard, where is that shuttle? We “buffons” need plenty of meds when wading through the hip-deep waste you’re spewing around these comment threads. This 56-year-old “spoiled kid” is still waiting for my delivery…
And thanks so much for elevating the tone. I’m certain National Review will be thrilled to learn there’s now a successor to Wm. F. Buckley.
sick of it all
May 31st, 2010
@Eward-your comments are pure nonsense…but a hoot to read and laugh at!