The Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey, is leading the race against Democratic nominee Joe Sestak 47-41, according to a new poll for Fox News conducted by a subsidiary of the Rasmussen polling company. The survey of 1000 likely voters was conducted Saturday and has a margin of error of 3.0%.
Recent past polling of the race has also shown Toomey ahead. The TPM Poll Average shows the Republican leading the race 46.9-40.1.
According to Fox, polling on the ground shows a tough environment for Democrats.
“Half of respondents said they wanted their vote to represent opposition to the policies of the Obama administration, and 56 percent favored repealing the president’s national health care program,” the pollsters report. “Only 40 percent approved of the job Obama is doing as president. The president carried Pennsylvania in a 10-point landslide in 2008.”
Trendlines show that Toomey is doing something right in Pennsylvania, with recent polls showing his numbers on the rise. Democrats and supporters of Sestak have pointed to his spectacular come-from-behind win in the primary as evidence that the feisty Democratic nominee will win in the end.
Evan McMorris-Santoro
Evan McMorris-Santoro has covered politics for TPM since 2009. Before that, he was a reporter at National Journal’s Hotline covering election 2008. He started his career covering local politics at newspapers in TN and his native NC.
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