Chris Coons leads Christine O’Donnell in a new poll for the upcoming U.S. Senate race — 50-27. 50-27!
The Center for Political Communications acting director Paul Brewer says often times early polling simply reflects candidate name recognition, but he does not believe that’s the case here after the well-publicized race between Coons and O’Donnell in 2010.
“I know from other poll results that Coons and O’Donnell were equally familiar to the public,” said Brewer. “Coons does not have a substantial name recognition lead over O’Donnell. It’s more reflecting that views of him are more favorable than they are of O’Donnell.”
Brewer adds the 50-27 spread in this poll is similar to the result in the 2010 race, which Coons won by 57-40 margin.
Looks like O’Donnell is going to have to cast quite the spell to make up this ground. AND it looks to me like Coons has plenty of room here to sign on to Mark Begich’s Fix Social Security Bill. Which I still don’t know why he hasn’t.
But the animosity of the local GOP leadership to Ms. O’Donnell looks more than just a little justified here — except who do they credibly run in her place?