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| Poll: Burns, Tester in dead heat for Montana seat |
| 2006-11-05 |
| HELENA - After months of campaigning and millions of dollars of advertising, it all comes down to this: Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic challenger Jon Tester are running dead even, a new Gazette State Poll shows. A telephone poll of 625 registered and likely Montana voters shows each man favored by 47 percent of respondents. Five percent of the voters are undecided, while Libertar-ian Stan Jones was the pick of 1 percent. The poll was taken from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research of Washington, D.C, for the Gazette State Bureau. It has a margin of error of plus- or minus-4 percentage points. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 The democrats have a serious problem that they don't recognize. It is that many Republicans, Independents and Democrats, are not going to vote for democratic candidates that they might have voted for in another election. I'm going to vote a straight Republican ticket. I'm not asking around or even concerned about who I am voting for. That others will be doing the same is going to have a huge impact on this election. Many people who would have voted for Burns or similar candidates will be so disgusted with Democrats in general and with the concept of a Nancy Pelosi/Murtha/Waxman alliance, that they will be doing the same. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-11-05 05:43 |
| #1 Now add in the effect of "hidden Republicans" in most pools, and the emphasis on Mail-In ballots... This may not be a seat they take - Montana is coming to its senses. Its pissed, but not so pissed that it will throw in with a Kos type liberal loon (Tester shoudl realize that a Flattop haircut doesn't make him a conservative). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-11-05 00:29 |