Rasmussen released a new poll that shows an 11-point lead for Chris Coons. This is smaller than the 16-point lead shown by PPP.
Coons earns 53% of the vote to O’Donnell’s 42%, with leaners included. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
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Seventy-one percent (71%) of Delaware Republicans now support O’Donnell after the party’s divisive primary, while Coons picks up 84% of the state’s Democratic voters. Voters not affiliated with either major party prefer O’Donnell by eight points.
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Coons voters say they are already certain how they will vote in November, while just 68% of O’Donnell’s supporters say the same.
Both candidates still have some room to grow, but Coons is over the magic 50% number. Coons has less Democrats to get percentage wise but the state has more Democrats. I have to say I’m pretty surprised by independents favoring O’Donnell, but this is Rasmussen, so take it with a grain of salt.
Remember the Palin Surge? Right up until she walked into the buzzsaw of Katie Couric.
It is Rasmussen. I am shocked they have Coons leading at all.
No one wins an election until they get their voters to the polls.
Exactly heragain, complacency is the enemy.
It will tighten up a bit after the Fox News onslaught of stories about Coons’ ties to Hamas or some such “journalism.”
I’m pretty sure he shared a meal of human flesh with Idi Amin while he was becoming a Marxist in Africa.
BTW 71% of Delaware republicans are fucking partisan a-holes that shut out reality. How else to explain that figure?
Or, as Atrios puts it, the belief that there is a serious non-crazy Republican Party is a myth.
Independents are sour on Democrats, so it’s not surprising. The larger grain of salt is the way Rasmussen pushes on leaners. His polls always have a tiny percentage of undecided — abnormally small in a case like this, where lots of people have no opinion of either candidate.
Anyone see the John Stewart clip: how democrats can fuck up this sure thing?
i agree with john oliver