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July 18, 2006

Headlines

Florida: Katherine Harris is a mess.

Arizona: SUSA's poll of the Senate race shows Kyl defeating Pederson 52% to 40%.

Minnesota: A new poll from the Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Klobuchar defeating Kennedy by a stunning 50% to 31%. The Hill has an interesting article about how the Minnesota GOP is questioning this poll, as they should.

Tennessee: "Bryant supporter in chicken suit run downs Corker supporter" Yes, this is real.

Wisconsin: Robert Lorge, the Republican candidate challenging Senator Kohl, is accused in a lawsuit of molesting a female relative twenty years ago. Link

Montana: From the Hotline Blog:

A Lake Research poll taken 6/20-6/26 for state Senate Pres. Jon Tester (D) shows him in a statistical tie with Sen. Conrad Burns (R), leading him 43%-42%, with 3% for the Libertarian and 12% undecided. That's a pretty good place for a Senate challenger to be only 4 months out from election day, though GOPers might note that Tester has actually held slightly larger leads in previous public polls. The Lake poll has quite a large sample size (1200 LVs, +/-2.8% MoE) and shows Burns with a fav/unfav of 46%/50% compared to Tester's 48%/18%.

Maryland: From the Baltimore Sun:

With the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate less than two months away, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin and former congressman and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume remain locked in a virtual tie, according to a new Sun poll.

If the primary were held today, the survey finds, each candidate would get about three out of 10 votes.

More than a third of the state's Democrats haven't decided on a candidate to face probable Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in the general election for the rare open seat - a huge bloc of voters that remains unmoved from a Sun survey conducted eight months ago.

New Jersey: Quinnipiac University has a new poll showing Kean defeating Menendez 40% to 38%. This contrasts with the recent Strategic Vision (R) poll which found Menendez leading by 6 points.

Posted by Max at July 18, 2006 11:10 PM