Republican David Perdue has regained a lead over Democrat Michelle Nunn in the Georgia Senate race, according to a NBC/Marist poll released Sunday.
Among likely voters, 48 percent said they would support Perdue while 44 percent said they would support Nunn. Three percent of voters said they would support Libertarian candidate Amanda Swafford.
The NBC poll signals a potential shift in the race favoring Perdue. A Monmouth University poll released this week showed Perdue with a small lead over Nunn, but earlier in Octorber Nunn had been holding into a small lead over her Republican competitor.
According to TPM’s Polltracker average, Perdue has a 4.6 point lead over Nunn.
NBC/Marist surveyed 603 likely voters on Oct. 31 with a margin of error plus or minus four percentage points.
guess running away from Obama hasn’t helped you wonder if the African American voters just get turned off and just don’t botrher to show. saw this morning where the Turtle has a big lead now i got to believe they got turned off by her not answering that question about if she voted for Obama. like i say nothing but a bunch of Demowimps.
the fact is Obama did a lot of good things but the republicans spent 300 million attacking him and the fact is Obama is not poltical doesn’t know how to defend himself and attack same with his so call surrogates who ever they are other then most on msnbc and Bill Maher. this saying is true and has been for years.
As a GOPer member of Congress explained some years ago, bipartisanship consists of the Democrats doing what the GOP tells them to do.
Well AGAIN. that NBC poll is of likely voters, which only polls those people who have voted in the past two elections, and even Perdue admitted to his donors that he has never at any time during this entire campaign polled ahead of Nunn in any of their internal polls.
In 2012, the results in no way portrayed the later LIKELY voter polls, and were much more in line with the polls that polled registered voters. These likely voter polls do not poll one damn newly registered voter since the last election. Likely voter polls are designed to do nothing but depress the vote.
Jesus H. Budda! No, No, No, No! This poll does not show Purdue “regaining” a lead BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST GODDAMNED TIME THIS POLLSTER HAS POLLED THIS RACE!!!
Unless you have sufficient information to assure yourself that this pollster’s sampling methodology, questions, and method of contacting respondents is exactly the same as another pollster’s (and, clue phone calling–no such thing exists!) you cannot, repeat CANNOT directly compare the results of one poll to another and say that because this result is different from the result of a prior poll by a different pollster, change has happened.
If you don’t understand why this is true, and why this truth is important, you have no business writing about polls, period.
At a certain point, when we see this kind of nonsense happening here over and over again, it begins to feel like we’re being dismissed as silly pedants and deliberately trolled for sport. Which would be fine if not for the part where the trolling for sport involved deliberately misinforming people.
People need to keep their eyes on the prize. What is more important … helping President Obama by electing this woman or spitting in her eyes to elect someone worse?
She didn’t “run away” from Obama. She ignored a heckling tracker once, then clearly stated at the time and place of her choosing that she did indeed vote for Obama. I’m involved in the GOTV ground-game in Savannah, and I can tell you that the African Americans I’m talking to understand what’s at stake in this election even before I knock on their doors, and are not staying home. Polls like this might worry me if I thought they could account for the “non-likely” voters we’re getting out, but my experience on the ground gives me nothing but confidence.