It’s day two of our daily week day count-down of the most salient and noteworthy polls of the last 24 hours. As I said yesterday, if you want to be alerted the moment a poll is released in a race you’re following, download our PollTracker Mobile app (available on iOS and Android.) So to the polls. Not much dramatic today on the most watched Senate races. We do have another poll from the Kansas Senate race though and it seems to confirm that incumbent Senator Pat Roberts is likely to lose to Greg Orman, the independent candidate who people on both sides are assuming would caucus with the Dems.
The latest poll is from SurveyUSA and yields Orman 47%, Roberts 42%.
The three most recent polls now show minuscule leads for former Gov. Charlie Crist over incumbent Rick Scott. The latest, again from USAToday, is Crist 44%, Scott 42%. This represents a small but clear rebound for Crist who now appears to have moved back into a small lead.
But here’s the race that really has my attention this morning. Again, it’s from SurveyUSA and it’s out South Dakota, a state no one has been watching. This poll has Mike Rounds (R) 35%, Larry Presser (I) 32%, Rick Weiland (D) 28%. Let me stipulate to the ‘one poll’ caveat. But what’s going on here? Many of you likely know that Pressler is longtime former Republican senator from South Dakota. But he endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012. So he’s no Dem. But it’s also not clear he’s much of a Republican anymore. Like Orman and others he’s remained cagey about how he’d caucus.
I’m not sure what’s going on here. Rounds has been hobbled by some scandal news. But I wasn’t clear it was having this kind of effect or that Pressler had gained such traction. This bears watching.
