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Toomey up by 8 in new poll
Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey holds an eight-point edge over Democratic opponent Joe Sestak, according to a new poll.
The Fox News survey released Tuesday found Toomey winning 48 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for Sestak. That’s a lead two points larger than in the same poll last week. Eight percent of likely voters are still undecided and four percent prefer another candidate.
The poll also found Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett enjoying a 10-point lead against Democrat Dan Onorato, with 9 percent of voters undecided and three percent preferring another candidate. Earlier in the day, a Quinnipiac University survey showed Corbett leading by 15 points.
The survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted Sept. 18, had a margin of error of three percent.
Click here to see the poll, and click here for demographic information about the survey sample.
September 21, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Tags: Dan Onorato, Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey, Tom Corbett
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David Diano
Sep 21st, 2010
Toomey’s lead is pretty consistent. Those ads he ran all summer solidified his support, and kept his name alive in voters’ minds.
Toomey sucks, and it looks like we are going to be stuck with him. Sestak would have to move up by more than 1 point per week to catch up.
bill healy
Sep 21st, 2010
Toomey is stuck and has nowhere to go but down, Seem obvious that even after a summer long blitz of blather from his campaign he has not been able to get a plurality, as more and more of his terrible ideas (privitise SS)are exposed to people he will lose ground. Joe Sestak by 8
David Diano
Sep 21st, 2010
Bill-
Stop looking at the charts upside down.
Sestak’s stuck in the mud, and Toomey’s stuck in the lead.
A lot of hard core right wingers DO want to privatize SS or eliminate it. But, that’s not the issue the election is going to turn on.
The election’s not being decided by gay marriage, or Iraq either.
Bill, look at this graphs and analysis by fivethirtyeight and then come back explain how Toomey’s “stuck” in a bad place.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/forecasts/senate/pennsylvania
Jim
Sep 21st, 2010
Bill, you need to learn the definition of “plurality” before putting up dumb comments like that. You’re embarrassing Democrats.
David Diano
Sep 22nd, 2010
Jim-
Bill’s embarrassing to those of us with opposable thumbs.
If he bothered to look at the graphs, he’s probably at home, curled up in a ball, clutching a teddy bear, and crying.
Ivan
Sep 27th, 2010
Pat Toomey is not only opposed to human rights but is also fiercely anti-environment. In 2003, Toomey was given a 0% rating by the League of Conservation Voters, indicating what the organization considers to be an anti-environmental voting record.