Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are tied among registered voters with just a week to go before the runoff election to fill an open U.S. House seat in Georgia, according to a new poll released Tuesday from Atlanta TV station WXIA.
The candidates are tied at 47 percent support in the poll, which was conducted by SurveyUSA.
The survey marks a significant drop in support for Ossoff since SurveyUSA’s last poll for WXIA, which was released in late May and showed Ossoff with a seven-point lead over Handel.
SurveyUSA polled 700 registered voters from June 7-11 by phone with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
The runoff election to fill Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s former seat will take place June 20.
Does anyone know a millennial who has a landline installed in their apartment?
These phone polls are worthless.
This poll actually gives me a bit more confidence in Ossoff’s chances than the last SUSA poll. Others had stated that the prior SUSA poll was weighted more to young folks and minorities. This one was weighted more to the general standard GOP leaning electorate. Even in such a model, Handel is only getting 47%. That the number you would expect her to hit if she were to lose this district. I think this race gets down to about a 5k-10k vote difference with a long night on Tuesday watching a vote count. Ossoff has shown a lot of staying power in a GOP district. I hope he can pull it off because I do think it would have some demonstration effect in how the House GOP behaves.
People need to constantly be reminded that Congress is gerrymandered to maintain a Republican majority.
State legislative districts are gerrymandered to maintain Republican majorities. This all happened in 2010 when liberal voters were pouting and Republican voters do what they always do, vote. The decisions are made by those who show up.
If progressives want to regain the House with a progressive majority, and not just for 2 years, they need to push gerrymander reform. Democrats are just as compromised on this issue as Republicans.
In 2012 Democrats out polled Republicans by more than 600,000 votes nationally in House races and Republicans maintained their majority. That is by design.
Agreed. I think this race will be reminiscent of the Franken Coleman race in '08 that came down to couple of hundred ballots.
Mike:
Point taken on phone polls, plus out in so-called ‘real America’ misleading pollsters is GOP sport. My question is: will your millennials show up to vote in a special election?
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478237882/millennials-now-rival-boomers-as-a-political-force-but-will-they-actually-vote