Hampered by her son’s legal troubles, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick isThe poll, done by EPIC-MRA on July 6 and 7, shows Clarke, a Detroit Democrat, ahead 44% to 31% among 400 likely voters in the Aug. 3 Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District. Four other Democratic challengers — Rev. Glenn Plummer and Stephen Hume of Detroit, Vincent Brown of Garden City and John Broad of Grosse Pointe Farms — get a total of 9% among them with no one at more than 3%.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. EPIC-MRA of Lansing also does statewide polling for the Free Press and a consortium of Michigan television stations.
Nearly half of the poll respondents who weren’t choosing Kilpatrick cited Kilpatrick family scandals as their reason for not wanting to keep the seven-term incumbent in office. Another 15% said it was time for a change from Kilpatrick, who was first elected to Congress in 1996.
down 13 percentage points to state Sen. Hansen Clarke in her re-election race, according to a poll released today by Clarke’s campaign
http://www.freep.com/article/20100716/NEWS15/100716063/1318/Clarkes-poll-shows-he-is-ahead-of-Rep.-KilpatrickI will be so happy when her slimy old ass is out of office.