The Raleigh-based polling firm, Public Policy Polling, just released their new North Carolina U.S. Senate poll. It's a mixture of old news and new news. First the old news, Senator Kay Hagan (D. NC) continues to lead all of opponents:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/...
At this point it doesn't matter who the Republicans put forward though- Kay Hagan has a wide lead over all of them. She's up 12 on Heather Grant at 48/36, 13 on Jim Cain and Lynn Wheeler at 50/37 and 48/35 respectively, 14 on Mark Harris at 50/36, 15 on Thom Tillis at 51/36, 16 on Greg Brannon at 52/36, and 17 on Phil Berger at 53/36. Hagan is up by at least 16 points with independents in every match up.
Despite the good sized leads for Hagan at this point there's still strong reason to think this will be a close race.
Voters continue to be pretty closely divided on her job performance, with 43% approving and 39% disapproving. And the Republicans are being hurt by low name recognition at this point, with none of the potential candidates known to even half of the electorate. The race is likely to tighten up a good bit once the GOP settles on a candidate and that person becomes better known, but for now Hagan looks like she's in good shape. - PPP, 9/10/13
Now onto the new news. With Rep. Virginia Foxx (R. NC) out of the running, North Carolina Republican voters are having a hard time settling on a candidate:
Leading the way at that 13% mark is Phil Berger. He's followed by Thom Tillis at 12%, Jim Cain at 11%, Heather Grant at 8%, Greg Brannon at 6%, Mark Harris at 5%, and Lynn Wheeler at 2%. Most Republicans in the state want someone other than Tillis, the most significant announced candidate, to be their standard bearer. But there continues to be little consensus about who that alternative should be. - PPP, 9/10/13
PPP surveyed 600 North Carolina voters, including an oversample of 311 usual Republican primary voters, between September 6-9, 2013. The margin of error for the overall survey is +
- 4.0%, and +- 5.6% for the GOP portion. It's funny because Berger and Tillis are two of Art Pope and Pat McCrory's loyal foot soldiers and GOP voters aren't sold on them.
The poll also shows that only 19% of North Carolina voters support military action against Syria. But if there were any action to take place, 51% of NC voters approve of sending the entire Congress to go help with the fighting.
I'm happy to see Hagan still hold the lead but it's still early and Art Pope wants her Senate seat. Lets make sure Hagan has the resources to fight back. You can click here to donate:
https://nc.kayhagan.com/...