Poll: Perdue 43, McCrory 38

Submitted by bkrueger on August 27, 2008 - 11:02am.
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Public Policy Polling has some new numbers out in the governor's race, but they look pretty much like the old numbers.

Democrat Beverly Perdue continues to lead Republican Pat McCrory in the latest survey. The new numbers are 43 percent for Perdue, 38 percent for McCrory and 4 percent for Libertarian candidate Michael Munger.

PPP surveyed 904 likely voters Aug. 20-23. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Tom Jensen of PPP says that McCrory, the longtime mayor of Charlotte, is having trouble getting traction elsewhere in the state. He says that McCrory leads 54-33 percent in the greater Charlotte area, but "trails in every other region of the state."

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Re: Poll: Perdue 43, McCrory 38

Submitted by TomJensen on August 27, 2008 - 1:01pm.

Wow that's some real undercover work right there McCroryManager- nobody knew that PPP is a Democratic organization!

An analysis done this week by fivethirtyeight.com found that there is no Democratic bias in PPP's polling numbers:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/house-effects-in-da-house.html

The average of the four polls conducted in the last two weeks shows McCrory down by four points. I'm not sure why you're getting so wound up about a poll showing him down by one more than that.

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Re: Poll: Perdue 43, McCrory 38

Submitted by McCroryManager on August 27, 2008 - 12:46pm.

Two points here:
1) Tom Jensen is a Democrat political operative who has run Democrat campaigns, worked for a liberal association and was Chairman of College Democrats. If you want a flavor for how partisan he is, just check outhis blog. So, his poll analysis should be taken with a grain of salt.
2) If you accept Jensen's automated poll numbers, what they show you is that despite $1M in negative ads from the unions and $500K in negative ads by Perdue's committee, McCrory has closed the gap since the past PPP poll.

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