Cantwell widens her lead
2006-09-12
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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rss feedCoupled with Sen. Maria Cantwell's TV advertising blitz, Republican challenger Mike McGavick's mishandled disclosure of a 1993 drunken-driving arrest might be damaging his poll numbers and how electable national pundits see him to be.
Those perceptions are factors that influence the national flow of campaign money, which Cantwell already has much more of than her opponent.
In the wake of news reports contradicting aspects of McGavick's DUI confession, Cantwell has surged to a 17percentage-point lead over him in a new survey of Washington voters taken Sept. 6 by Rasmussen Reports, a national, independent polling firm..
"The first election poll in Washington since the (DUI) story broke shows ... Cantwell leading 52 percent to 35 percent," the Rasmussen Reports Daily Snapshot said in a sketchy, preliminary report Monday.
It noted that in a poll 22 days earlier, "Cantwell's lead was down to 6 percentage points."
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