Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) and former Democratic Senator and Governor Evan Bayh are tied in a new poll of the U.S. Senate election in Indiana, according to a release from Monmouth University.
The race to fill incumbent Sen. Dan Coats’ (R-IN) seat is a tossup in TPM’s Senate Scoreboard, and the race is considered important to Democrats’ attempt to become the majority party in the Senate.
The major-party candidates are tied at 45 percent among likely Indiana voters, with Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton trailing at 4 percent.
Bayh previously held an advantage in the race, polling six points ahead of the Republican representative just two weeks ago, according to a previous Monmouth poll.
The Monmouth University poll was conducted via live telephone interview from Oct. 27-30 among 402 likely Indiana voters, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average for the U.S. Senate election in Indiana shows a tossup, with Bayh leading Young, 43 to 42.3.
We’re going to get deluged with these individual polls over the next week, aren’t we, TPM? Sigh. Thank goodness for Nate Silver, Nate Cohn, Sam Wang, Alan Abramowitz, and Larry Sabato to keep us grounded.