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Poll: GOPers still ahead in statewide races

Republicans Pat Toomey and Tom Corbett continue to lead the race for Senate and governor, respectively, but paths to victory remain for the Democratic candidates, according to a new poll.

The Fox News survey released Tuesday showed Toomey leading Democrat Joe Sestak by six points, 47 percent to 41 percent. Seven percent of likely voters remain undecided, and four percent prefer another candidate, according to the poll. Toomey’s relatively modest lead—the margin of error is three percent—comes despite the fact that his campaign and its conservative allies have outspent Sestak and his supporters on TV.

Corbett holds a wider lead over Democrat Dan Onorato in the race for governor, a contest in which TV advertising has been much more sparse up to this point. He garners 50 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for Onorato. The window for Onorato is narrow, according to the poll, with five percent still undecided and five percent preferring another candidate.

The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Sept. 11. It points to trouble for Democrats if local elections are allowed to become referendums on national policy, with three quarters of voters saying, when asked, that they’d see their votes as reflecting their positions on national political issues—rather than how the feel about individual candidates.

Click here to see the poll, and click here to see demographic information on the survey’s sample.

September 14, 2010 at 1:17 pm

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Dan Onorato, Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey, Tom Corbett

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