NBC Poll: good news for senate democrats - Kansas independent leads by 10 pts

[Liberal_in_LA]

Democrats got some good news Sunday in the battle for the Senate.

An NBC/Marist poll of likely voters unveiled on “Meet the Press” showed Kansas GOP Sen. Pat Roberts down double digits, North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan with a 4-point lead and a neck-and-neck race in Iowa.


The Kansas numbers are the most significant. Independent Greg Orman leads Roberts by 10 points, 48 to 38, in what until recently was seen as a safe Republican hold. The lead for Orman, who won’t say which party he’ll caucus with, comes despite an onslaught of ads from the right that aim to tie him to President Barack Obama.

A GOP loss in Kansas would require seven pickups elsewhere for the party to seize the Senate.

The Iowa results had Republican Joni Ernst with 46 percent to Democrat Bruce Braley’s 44 percent, within the 3.5-percentage-point margin of error. Last weekend, the Des Moines Register poll showed Ernst up 6 points, so this latest survey will aid Democratic efforts to argue that the race to succeed retiring Sen. Tom Harkin remains a true tossup and has not begun to drift away.

In North Carolina, Hagan leads 44 percent to 40 percent — just outside the 3.8 percent margin of error. The freshman Democrat has now led in the past 10 public polls.

But both candidates are underwater: Only 42 percent of voters have a favorable view of Hagan, compared to 48 percent who have an unfavorable view. Republican challenger Thom Tillis, the speaker of the state House, is viewed unfavorably by 47 percent and favorably by 36 percent.

In a danger sign for Democrats, Obama’s approval rating is in the 30s in all three states among likely voters: 35 percent in Kansas and 39 percent in both Iowa and North Carolina.

Http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/nbc-poll-senate-democrats-2014-elections-111611.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Michigan and North Carolina are going solid Democrat, Iowa is a coin toss and Kansas is about to

turn all blue or independent, Florida is going blue, Alaska, you know it, etc....and yet the major media STILL crows over the incredibly shrinking "inevitable" GOP Senste majority?

I note Obama's job approval, is rising and is 4 times, 400% higher than Congress job approval...I always love how the major media avoid that like the plague.....a strange term these days as covering the plague is most of what they do lately.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. i'm glad things are improving as we get closer to nov

[yeoman6987]

3. How did his meeting with the Tea Partiers go?

I know he did or is going to meet with them soon. Will he caucus with the Republicans?