(R)asmussen CT-SEN Poll: Blumenthal 56, McMahon 33.

Democrat Richard Blumenthal apparently has weathered charges that he exaggerated his military service in Vietnam for years and is running as strongly as ever against both his Republican challengers in Connecticut’s race for the U.S. Senate.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Connecticut finds Blumenthal with 56% support versus 33% for Linda McMahon, the officially endorsed GOP candidate. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. McMahon has come under criticism recently as people have focused on her role in World Wresting Entertainment, a corporation that one conservative pundit compares to the Gulf oil spill as “a relentless gusher of pollution."

Blumenthal, the state’s longtime attorney general, earns 55% of the vote in a match-up with Wall Street investment banker Peter Schiff, who hopes to collect enough signatures by Tuesday to force McMahon into an August 10 primary contest. Given that match-up, three percent (3%) like another candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.

With both Republicans earning roughly the same support, the new findings suggest that the race continues to be largely about Blumenthal.

The current figures put the race back where it has been for most of the year, a likely Democratic victory in a challenging year for the Democratic Party. However, the numbers also reflect a big change in the race from the days immediately following a New York Times report suggesting that Blumenthal had exaggerated his military record. The Times is an influential publication among Democrats, and, in the heat of the moment, their story caused some Democrats to have doubts about Blumenthal.

Just after that story broke, Blumenthal held a very narrow 48% to 45% lead over McMahon.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/connecticut/election_2010_connecticut_senate

In the words of Nelson Muntz: HA-ha!

Kirk and brewer, too?

Blumenthal is well liked here in CT and McMahon is not. Simple as that. No need to ever replace him...we didn't have anyone here that would have been as good anyway.

at hearing about Mark Kirk and Jan Brewer. Don't know if the corporatemedia is playing their lies like they did Blumenthal's though(if his was a lie?)?

Sure he did, buddy.

utter crap.

Blumenthal goes up 8% and McMahon drops 12%, those huge shifts seem more like Rasmussen was trying to backtrack and maintain credibility, but it only made him look more flaky.

McMahon sex tape