Giannoulias own poll has him tied with Kirk

A poll taken by Alexi Giannoulias' Democratic Illinois Senate campaign last week shows Giannoulias even with GOP rival Rep. Mark Kirk, making up for ground lost after the failure of the Giannoulias family-owned Broadway Bank.

Giannoulias, the state treasurer, is even with Kirk, according to his campaign pollsters, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. Their poll of 600 likely November voters -- taken May 11-13 -- shows a 44-44 tie.

A Giannoulias campaign internal poll of 600 conducted April 27-29, just after federal regulators shut down the bank on April 23, had Kirk at 43 and Giannoulias at 37.

Both polls had a 4 percentage-point margin of error. Each time the question was the same: if the election were today, would you vote for Giannoulias or Kirk.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/05/giannoulias_own_poll_has_him_t.html

.... I wouldn't count Giannoulias out any time soon.

Kirk has money, lots of it. He really hasn't spent any yet.