Kay Hagan has opened up a significant lead.
According to a recent survey by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, the Democratic Senate candidate received 46 percent, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole 38 percent and Libertarian Christopher Cole six percent.
Ten percent were undecided.
"Hagan has expanded her lead with independents from 9 points to 14," writes pollster Tom Jensen on his blog. "She leads in almost every region of the state, and perhaps most significantly is up 55-32 with the increasing group of voters listing the economy as their top issues."
The eight-point lead is the largest Hagan has had over Dole in any poll this year. Recent polls had shown the race tightening, though Dole was up by a similar margin in a poll taken in early September.
The automated survey of 1,041 likely voters was taken on Sept. 28-29. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
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Re: Hagan 46, Dole 38, Cole 6
Yes Carlton, we got a poll wrong and took responsibility for it, made changes, and came back and had the most accurate poll of anyone for all three primaries we surveyed after it, per the scorecards put together by our competitor SurveyUSA. Some of us learn from our mistakes and some of us spend our days making anonymous blog postings and accomplishing nothing. Enjoy yourself.
To the other commenter, if you pay any attention you will see that we almost always release President and Senate one day, and the rest of the state stuff the next. Nice conspiracy theory, but it will be out this afternoon.