I know, I know, it's Rasmussen but still:
http://cjonline.com/...
Democratic Rep. Paul Davis is surging ahead of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback in a new poll as both campaigns race against the clock for votes.
The poll, from Rasmussen Reports, shows Davis with 52 percent support and Brownback at 45 percent among likley voters. The poll shows only one percent preferring another candidate and two percent undecided.
Among voters who say they “will definitely” vote, Davis’ lead increases to 53 percent. Rasmussen surveyed 960 likely voters between Monday and Tuesday.
The Brownback campaign called the new results unreliable because the poll was conducted during the World Series involving the Kansas City Royals. Game One of the World Series took place on Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.
Rasmussen’s new poll gives Davis the largest lead he has had in polling since an early August Rasmussen poll showed the lawmaker up 10 percentage points.
According to the Insight Kansas polling aggregation project, the race had been tightening in recent weeks. Three polls earlier in October gave Brownback either the lead or had the race as a tie. But a poll early this week from Monmouth University in New Jersey gave Davis a 5 percentage point lead. Additionally, a Gravis Marketing poll released Wednesday showed Davis ahead 49 percent to 44 percent.
Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political science professor who is part of the Insight Kansas project, said polling like this late in the race could have contributed to Brownback’s decision to run an ad this week injecting the Carr brothers — the Wichita pair who had the capital murder death sentences against them overturned by the Kansas Supreme Court — into the race.
“You might gain some voters but you might turn off some voters so you really don’t want to do that unless your polling is showing you may want to give it a try,” Beatty said. - Topeka Capitol Journal, 10/24/14
Here's some more info:
http://www.kansascity.com/...
The latest poll paints a dark picture for Brownback on several counts leading up to the Nov. 4 election.
▪ Roughly 53 percent of the voters in the Rasmussen poll thought of the governor unfavorably. This result has been seen throughout many of the polls this election season.
▪ Fifty-eight percent of voters thought Kansas was worse off today than it was four years ago when Brownback took office. Not a very good number considering the governor’s re-election theme has been the “Kansas comeback.”
▪ Most Kansans don’t trust Brownback with taxes, another bad bellwether given that income tax cuts are his seminal achievement during his first term in office. The Rasmussen poll found that 48 percent of voters trust Davis on taxes compared to 42 percent for Brownback. Ten percent didn’t know.
▪ The effort to exploit Davis’ presence at a strip club during a drug raid also does not appear to be sticking. On ethics and corruption, 45 percent trust Davis compared to 40 percent for Brownback. - Kansas City Star, 10/24/14
Again, lets kick some GOP ass in kansas this year. Click here to donate and get involved with Davis, Greg Orman (I. KS) and Jean Schodorf's (D. KS) campaigns:
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