Republican Pat McCrory has a 10-point lead over Democrat Walter Dalton in the governor's race, according to a new poll.
McCrory, the former Charlotte mayor lead Dalton, the lieutenant governor, by a 47-37 percent margin, according to a poll conducted for The Civitas Institute, a conservative advocacy group based in Raleigh. Barbara Howe, the Libertarian candidate had 7 percent.
That is a widening of the race since the last Civitas Poll taken nearly a month ago, which had McCrory leading Dalton by a 46-44 percent margin with Howe at 7 percent.
The spin: “Any one poll is a snapshot of voter sentiment,” said Francis De Luca, Civitas president. “More important are the trends over time, and those trends show McCrory maintaining a significant lead.''
The poll of 600 likely voters was conducted July 16-18 by National Research Inc. and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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July 26, 2012 - 3:36pm — mountainmanYou could say the same thing about Public policy polling, a democrat leaning pollster. Or maybe Rasmussen which possibly leans Republican, or the poll by NC Citizens for Progress which is absolutely a democrat group. The one thing all these polls have in common is McCrory wins. McCrory has yet to trail in any poll that I have read. That is a good indicator that CHANGE is coming to Raleigh.
Civitas polls are not worth the paper they are written on
July 26, 2012 - 8:08am — MalleusMaleficarumCivitas manufactures polls that overestimate Republican support. This poll is perfectly meaningless.