PA-SEN POLL: Toomey 46 (-1), Sestak 46 (+9)

[jefferson_dem]

:bounce:

Reuters-Ipsos poll: Pennsylvania Senate race tied with one week left
Oct 26, 2010 13:18 EDT

The Pennsylvania Senate race has tightened up considerably a week before the Nov. 2 election and is likely to be hard fought to the end.

Republican Pat Toomey, who had a 10 percentage point advangate among likely voters in August, is now locked in a tight race with Democrat Joe Sestak — tied at 46 percent, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll.

They are battling for the seat of Senator Arlen Specter who lost to Sestak in the Democratic primary. Pennsylvania is one of the key states that will determine whether Republicans can pick up the 10 Democratic seats they need to seize majority in the Senate.

The White House has been watching the latest polls on this race with great interest and President Barack Obama will visit Pennsylvania during his final campaign push this weekend with the aim of giving Sestak an added boost.

“There are only 6 percent remaining who are undecided so this race will most likely continue to be hard fought until election day,” Ipsos pollsters say.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69P3OG20101026

[Kdillard]

1. Good news. I really hope Sestak can pull this off with enough of a GOTV effort.

[jenmito]

2. K&R! Do you know if they have early voting there? n/t

[Cosmocat]

8. not "early voting" per se ...

but absentee ballots (fairly easy to get) that have already started to roll in ...

[jenmito]

13. Thanks for the info. n/t

[Beetwasher]

3. Sestak's Gonna Pull This Out

:thumbsup:

[movonne]

4. I just saw a post on here earlier this morning and it had Sestak

down by about 7pts...what's going on in these polls..

[wisteria]

6. I was an unreliable daily tracking poll. n/t

[Kdillard]

7. I believe the poll you are talking about is a daily rolling poll which has a large margin of error.

I believe the race is close and if we can GOTV in the areas where we need to do so Sestak can win it. All hands on deck.

[Cosmocat]

9. I think that Toomey clearly is pretty solid at 46 or so ...

at least ... I don't doubt that ...

Sestak is NOT at 40 percent ...

He is not that low ...

Sestak has to keep hammering Toomey to keep him no higher than 46-47 going into Tuesday, then GOTF and OFA and try to led him out ...

[Hepburn]

5. Oh, yeah!!!

KnR...:bounce:

[WI_DEM]

10. Good, as stated daily tracking polls can be quite erratic and so it's good to see another

poll taken over the weekend still showing a tight race.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. do they have early voting in PA?

I sure hope so.

[polichick]

12. Just absentee. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. thnx

[oswaldactedalone]

15. GOTV People!

Please email your progressive, or even just registered Democrat, family, friends, and acquaintances in Pennsylvania reminding them to vote, and help someone else vote.