Democrat Russ Feingold holds an eight-point lead over incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in a new Monmouth University poll of the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin.
Feingold leads the poll, 52-44, with Libertarian Phil Anderson polling behind at 2 percent.
Feingold, a former Senator unseated by Johnson in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin, held a 13-point lead in the previous Monmouth poll of the race, conducted at the end of August.
The Monmouth University poll was conducted Oct. 15-18 via live telephone interview among 403 likely Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin shows Feingold leading Johnson, 52 to 43.7.
Welp, guess won’t have America’s Dumbest Senator to kick around anymore. What’s this augur for WI-08?