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Inhofe touts his advantage |
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By Meghan McNamara
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Posted: 10/28/08 07:28 PM [ET] |
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Sen. James Inhofe’s campaign released a new internal poll Monday showing the GOP incumbent leading his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Andrew Rice, by 16 percentage points.
Inhofe, who has a clear advantage in the Republican-leaning state, performed strongest with voters who consider themselves “extremely interested” in the upcoming election. On a 10-point scale of Senate campaign interest, voters who said they were a “10” — or extremely interested in the upcoming election — favored Sen. Inhofe by a 16-point margin, 54-38. The telephone survey of 500 likely voters was conducted Oct. 23-26 and had a 4.38 percent margin of error.
And a recent poll by SurveyUSA had Inhofe 12 points up, leading Rice 51-39. The poll was conducted Oct. 18-19 with 561 likely voters and had a 4.2 percent margin of error.
With only a week to go until Election Day, Inhofe’s campaign said it is confident that the state will vote Republican, both in the Senate and presidential races, while the Rice campaign said it believed the momentum is on its side.
“After seven weeks of Inhofe flooding the TV and radio airwaves with misleading attacks on Sen. Rice, the polls didn’t move in Inhofe’s favor. Public and internal polling show the race closing in Sen. Rice’s favor,” said Tres Savage, Rice’s press secretary.
Although it would be difficult for Rice to make up his 10-point deficit before Nov. 4, polls show the smallest percentage gap between Inhofe and Rice since Rice first announced his bid for the U.S. Senate in June 2008.
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