Arizona Senate race stays close in poll, governor’s contest has clear leader
Sep 25, 2018, 9:19 AM | Updated: 11:45 am
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PHOENIX — With six weeks to go to the fall election, a poll of likely Arizona voters has kept the U.S. Senate race close, while the governor’s race has a more clear-cut leader.
A Tuesday NBC News-Marist College survey had Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Phoenix managing a 48 percent to 45 percent edge over Republican Martha McSally of Tucson. The poll also put Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in the lead against challenger David Garcia, 51 percent to 43 percent.
Among all registered voters, U.S. Rep. Sinema still led, 47 percent to 44 percent. The poll was conducted on landlines Sept. 16-20.
Two weeks ago, a pair of polls produced split results of the Senate contest. An OH Predictive Insights/ABC15 phone canvass had U.S. Rep. McSally ahead, 49 percent to 46 percent, but a Data Orbital poll had Sinema up, 46 percent to 42 percent.
The 564 likely voters in the latest survey, including undecideds who were leaning toward one candidate or the other, were asked, “If November’s election for U.S. Senate in Arizona were held today, whom would you support if the candidates are …”
The largest group supporting Sinema was likely voters younger than 30. For McSally, her biggest group of backers were men at 53 percent.
A little over half of the likely voters said they had a favorable impression of Ducey, at 51 percent. Garcia earned 42 percent in favorability.
The poll of likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent.