Polls: GOP Losing Grip On Senate - McClatchy News Service

Polls: GOP losing grip on Senate
Democrats must gain at least six seats to grab control - a feat that is suddenly not so farfetched.
By Steven Thomma - McClatchy Washington Bureau
Last Updated 12:52 am PDT Monday, October 2, 2006



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WASHINGTON -- Democrats are within striking distance of taking control of the U.S. Senate on Election Day, a series of new polls for McClatchy Newspapers and MSNBC showed today.

Democratic Senate candidates are tied, have a slight edge or an outright lead in every one of 10 pivotal battleground states. No Democrat trails in those races; no Republican leads. Democrats must gain six seats to capture control of the 100-member Senate.

Democratic candidates have a strong chance to win all seven at-risk Republican Senate seats -- with their candidates tied in Virginia and Missouri, holding a slight edge in Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee, and leading in Montana and Pennsylvania. Democrats are also in position to hold their three most vulnerable seats -- with a slight edge in New Jersey and leading in Maryland and Washington.

This in-depth, state-by-state look at the political landscape of 10 Senate battleground states five weeks before Election Day, Nov. 7, is based on a series of polls by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, Inc. Seven were conducted for McClatchy Newspapers and MSNBC, and three for other newspapers were made available to McClatchy. Each state poll was conducted by phoning 625 likely voters in the final week of September. The error margin is plus or minus four percentage points.

"These numbers look very encouraging for the Democrats to take control of the Senate," said Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker.

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Link: http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/32539.html

Just in case anybody wanted to know...

:bounce::evilgrin::bounce:

Both looking to flip Dem.

Not in the graph though...

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Here are poll results in three other Senate races:

• In Montana, Democrat Jon Tester, the state Senate president, led incumbent Republican Sen. Conrad Burns 47-40 percent. The Mason-Dixon poll was conducted for Lee Newspapers.

• In Ohio, Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown had 45 percent and incumbent Republican Sen. Mike DeWine had 43 percent. The poll was conducted for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

• In Tennessee, Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. had 43 percent and Republican Bob Corker, the former mayor of Chattanooga, had 42 percent. The poll was conducted for the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

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Link: Same article.

:shrug:

If the stars and moons align just right by those numbers we could gain 9!

break our way and the fundies stay home in disgust we should do well. :bounce:

Mz Pip
:dem:

Long time no see.

Ya think we'll all survive the next 5 weeks???

:scared::hi::scared:

but nervous as can be. Am doing an absentee ballot this year and will be in NYC on election day visiting our son. I think you met him at one of the picnics. I hope by then he'll have cable tv.

:hi:

Mz Pip
:dem: