Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and independent candidate Greg Orman are tied in a new Monmouth University poll, further evidence that the race has pulled even in its final weeks.
Monmouth found Orman and Roberts both sitting at 46 percent; 3 percent said they’d vote for someone else and 5 percent were undecided.
Polling in Kansas has been somewhat erratic since Democratic nominee Chad Taylor dropped out in early September, but the trend has been toward a tightening race between Orman and Roberts. The Democratic firm Public Policy Polling put Orman up three last week, while Remington Research gave Roberts a three-point lead over the same period.
The Monmouth poll, conducted Oct. 16 to 19, surveyed 429 likely voters. Its margin of error is 4.7 points.
According to TPM’s PollTracker average, Roberts currently holds a marginal advantage, 44.7 percent to 44.2 percent.
If these polls turn out to be as inaccurate as they’ve been for the last two election cycles, will the media (including TPM) finally admit that most of them are useless trash?
Interesting race.
Frequently, you have Democrats losing races because they try to avoid ideology, and time and time again, it proves the adage that you cannot beat something with nothing.
In Kansas, we now have two nothings running against each other, though it this case, one of them is an independent.
Kansans will end up sticking with the idiot just because he’s “our boy”…and it’s sad to see.
MOE is 4.7? That’s sorta a useless poll then.
None of the polls are all that good, but they all point to a much tighter race than Roberts anticipated. Orman might pull this out. Neither has a really good GOTV organization so this could be tight.