Pat McCrory trails Bev Perdue by five points in the latest survey from Raleigh's Public Policy Polling, a result the pollster says should concern Perdue.
Democrat Perdue leads Republican Pat McCrory, 43-38 percent.
“Although the polls are mostly unchanged, this is not a particularly good result for BevPerdue,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling, in a release today. “Given the amount of money that’s been spent on her behalf by the Alliance for North Carolina attacking Pat McCrory, there was a real opportunity to break the race open this month that’s now passed.”
Debnam says the Governor’s race has remained relatively static across all polling in August. In addition to PPP, Rasmussen, SurveyUSA, and Civitas all surveyed the Governor’s race in both July and August and on average Bev Perdue has gained half a point.
Democrats lead open seat races for Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, and Insurance Commissioner. Walter Dalton is up three points on Robert Pittenger, Janet Cowell has a two-point edge against Bill Daughtridge, and Wayne Goodwin leads John Odom by a single point.
PPP surveyed 904 likely voters from August 20th to 23rd. The survey’s margin of error is
+/-3.3 percent.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
McCrory stays close in N.C. Gov. poll
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Where is the polling data on Michael Munger? Isn't he polling in around 5% as the Libertarian candidate for Governor? Also heard that he is pulling support from both Democrats and Republicans. Dr. Michael Munger for NC Governor All the Libertarians need to consider this election a victory is 2% of the vote. Considering close to 1/3 of all voters in NC are unaffiliated it seems very likely to happen.
Hey Guys, I read polls too. NC is a battleground state for sure in the governor's race, but also in the US Senate and Presidential races (see Insider Advantage and PPH. Where is your reporting on the closeness of those races? Hagan has closed in on Dole and Obama staying close to McCain. Shessh
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