May 16, 2008 - 9:57am
Gregore up big in new poll: 52-41, Obama leads McCain
By Bryan Bissell
Category: GovernorTags: poll, 2008, John McCain, Barack Obama, Dino Rossi, polls, Chris Gregoire, Washington gubernatorial race
Gov. Chris Gregoire
A new Rasumussen Poll show Governor Chris Gregoire with a comfortable eleven point lead over her opponent, Republican Dino Rossi. The poll has Gregoire leading Rossi 52 percent to 41 percent. The last two Rasmussen snapshots, conducted in March and in February, showed statistical dead heats of 47-46, with Rossi leading in February and Gregoire on top in March.
Gregoire's improvement can be attributed to a combination of energizing the base and winning over the independents. The new poll shows her with 88 percent support from Democrats, a significant increase from past snapshots, and a nine percent lead among independents. In a March Rasmussen Poll, the two were essentially even among independents.
The poll was conducted on May 12 and surveyed 500 likely voters. The margin of error is +/- 4 percent.
The same pollster also shows Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain 51-40 in a presidential matchup here in the Evergreen State. This, too, is a marked increase for the Democrat from earlier polls.
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Rossi's Support Plummets
I think the reason the polling has Rossi dropping to 41% can be attributed directly to his poorly received fantasyland transportation "plan".
Up until now he's refused to get specific and engage in presenting solutions to the issues that matter to voters, and when he did so in April with a transportation "plan" that was almost universally ridiculed, voters were obviously not impressed, and now his numbers put him in the same company as failed candidate Mike McGavick.
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