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Murray Slightly Ahead in Latest Rasmussen Poll

2010 Election, Politics   July 30, 2010 at 9:19 am Josh Feit

The latest poll from Rasmussen Reports has U.S. Sen. Patty Murray at 49 to 47 over Dino Rossi and 48 to 45 over Clint Didier.




  • fgruben

    Who cares. She has been part of the problem for 14 years. How can a person that has been in government for so long expect to be percieved as part of the solution. Don't make any sense.

  • Ira

    And how many years did Dino Rossi serve in the state legislature?
    Is the choice between an establishment politician who wore tennis shoes and an establishment politician who makes money from foreclosure seminars? Or a guy who used to tackle people for a living and wants to be an establishment politician?

  • giffy

    Rossi tends to under preform his polling so this seems like a pretty good sign that Murray is looking good. If he could not beat Gregoire there is no way he is beating Murray.

  • Jon Morgan

    14 years? She was elected to the Senate in 1992. Was she great her first 4 years and then turned evil?

  • Jon Morgan

    2010 is not 2008. But yes, Murray is no Gregoire.

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    Also, you have to account for Rasmussen's well-known GOP bias. If they say 49-47, it's really more like 53-44.

  • MudBaby

    In the end, the people of Washington are going to just say no being represented by a real estate developer who wants to repeal health care reform, reinstate the Bush economic program, end stimulus spending, drill in ANWR, opposes immigration reform and wage endless war on terror everywhere even if it means increasing military spending to ensure that the US continues to have the biggest ass-kicking military the world has ever known.