New poll shows Granholm, Stabenow increasing their leads
2006-11-01
Source: Washington Examiner
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rss feedA poll released Tuesday shows Democrats Jennifer Granholm and Debbie Stabenow have the support of more than 50 percent of likely voters and are increasing the margins over their GOP challengers in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.
Gov. Granholm led GOP businessman Dick DeVos by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent, with 6 percent undecided. Three third-party candidates got only negligible support.
Stabenow, the incumbent U.S. senator, led Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard 52 percent to 38 percent, with 9 percent undecided. Libertarian candidate Leonard Schwartz got 1 percent and two other third-party candidates got only negligible support.
The poll of 600 likely voters statewide was conducted Thursday, Sunday and Monday by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA for The Detroit News and TV stations WXYZ in Southfield, WOOD in Grand Rapids, WILX in Lansing and WJRT in Flint. It had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In an EPIC-MRA poll conducted Oct. 22-25, 48 percent of those polled said they would vote for Granholm, compared with 43 percent for DeVos, while Stabenow was ahead of Bouchard, 50 percent to 38 percent.
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