Race for Frist's Senate seat statistical dead heat
2006-10-04
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
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rss feedDays after Republican Bob Corker shook up the leadership of his U.S. Senate campaign, an independent poll confirms he has lost his double-digit lead in the race and is running about even with Democrat Harold Ford Jr.
The Middle Tennessee State University survey, released Tuesday, showed 43 percent supported Corker and 42 percent supported Ford.
The poll of 549 Tennesseans was conducted Sept. 19-30 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Sixteen percent of voters still were undecided, and Ken Blake, acting director of the MTSU survey group, said most undecided voters describe themselves as independent.
"I sure hope the state's voting machines are all working right," Blake said. "It's going to be a real squeaker."
Corker shook up his campaign Friday by naming Tom Ingram, chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, as his new campaign chairman, pushing out former chairman Ben Mitchell.
The campaign borrowed several other staffers from Alexander and moved its headquarters to Nashville from Chattanooga, with just more than two weeks before the Oct. 18 start to early voting.
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