Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is leading other candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate by a wide margin.
Marshall is the choice of 42 percent of voters in a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling. Chapel Hill lawyer Kenneth Lewis has 7 percent and unofficial candidate and Lexington lawyer Cal Cunningham has 5 percent. There's plenty of room to grow: 45 percent of poll respondents were undecided, according to the survey of 667 likely Democratic primary voters that was conducted Nov. 23-24.
The poll may prove helpful to Marshall, who is still trying to convince the national Democratic establishment that she is worth the investment of the millions of dollars it would take to defeat Republican Sen. Richard Burr. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee unsuccessfully lobbied U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge of Lillington to run for the seat.
The committee is now lobbying Cunningham, who previously announced he would not run, to reconsider.
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Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
December 1, 2009 - 4:22pm — GiggleBoxWhy you yawning on the job Ishley?
Aint Cal Waverinham paying ya for this "grassroots" stuff?
Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
November 28, 2009 - 4:01pm — ishleyDome, please ban "pandorajewelry".
As to Marshall's purported poll numbers...YAWN...and I don't think it's the tryptophan.
Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
November 28, 2009 - 9:58am — MalleusMaleficarumThis is rich. Marshall has herself outpacing two relatively unknown candidates - one of whom is not even an announced challenger. She is grasping at straws.
Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
November 25, 2009 - 9:37pm — SonofWSThis seems way out of balance compared to every other poll so far. She may have more name recognition than Kenneth or Cal, but not enough to make that big of a difference unless the poll was conducted in the lobby of her office.
Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
November 25, 2009 - 4:54pm — imastewartWhere is this poll on PPP's website? Was this a poll done for Marshall? Is PPP Marshall's polling outfit?
Re: Marshall has big lead in Dem poll
November 25, 2009 - 4:41pm — SaintPinehurstWhy isn't this poll on PPP's website? They put everything else up.
Makes me wonder what was wrong with the polls Marshall had done last week. Did no one believe those numbers? Speaking of... where are those numbers?