Georgia Senate Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn leads both of her potential general election Republican opponents in head-to-head match-ups according to a new poll from conservative-leaning pollster Rasmussen Reports.
The latest Rasmussen survey released Friday found Nunn leading Rep. Jack Kingston 47 percent to 41 percent among like Georgia voters. Three percent said they preferred another candidate and 9 percent said they were undecided.
In a matchup against businessman David Perdue, Nunn leads 45 percent to 41 percent while another 7 percent said they did not favor either candidate and six percent said they were undecided.
The poll comes just a few days after the Georgia primary where Nunn cleanly won the nomination but Kingston and Perdue were forced into a runoff that will take place on July 22, as none of the candidates in the field were able to get enough votes to prevent a a runoff from happening. Kingston and Perdue were the top two vote-getters.
The Rasmussen poll of 750 likely voters was conducted May 21-22. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Rasmussen? Didn’t they try to kill that guy, like, eleventy billion times?
Interesting. AJC had her up by 1 vs. Perdue 2 weeks ago. It appears that Nunn may be starting to trend upwards against Perdue. And she has two months to build on that while Perdue and Kingston are forced to go after each other (and spend money).
She just for Sec Shinsiki to resign.
I just off the phone with her campaign office and told them she is wrong…she better clear it up NOW.
I asked if she, herself will resign if one of her staffers messes up.
When Ratsmussen has the Teabillies down a couple points, you know it’s bad.
She’s a hard candidate to support, until I think about the Republicans. She’ll pull that centrist crap, but at least she’ll be sane, not to mention keeping the Democrats in the majority.
Since she does a bit better against Kingston, and he has a longer record to defend, maybe he’s the preferred opponent. I don’t get the impression she’ll engage in anything but risk-avoidance campaigning, but it seems Kingston is prime for a McCaskill-style “he’s too conservative” ratfing campaign.