Elizabeth Warren leads in Massachusetts Senate race

[Playinghardball]

Source:Reuters - Raw Story

BOSTON (Reuters) – Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a prominent consumer activist and former official in President Barack Obama’s administration, leads Republican Senator Scott Brown in her bid for a Senate seat from Massachusetts, a new poll shows.

Warren, who is also a Harvard Law School professor, had 49 percent support for the seat against 42 percent support for Brown, in the University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald survey released late on Wednesday.

The survey of 505 registered voters was taken December 1-6 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.

The previous UMass survey taken in late September, a few weeks after Warren announced her run, showed Brown ahead by 41 percent to 38 percent.


More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/08/warren-leads-in-massachusetts-senate-race/

[denverbill]

1. Wow, that's very good news.

I thought I saw a poll a few weeks ago where she was trailing.

[Proud Public Servant]

2. I want this to be true, but I work with polling

505 voters is a very small sample, and a margin of error of over 5% is too high to take seriously. Ignore polls, keep your shoulder to the wheel, and keep working to make her a senator. It's a long way until November, and a lot can happen.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. it's a very long way until November. you are right.

[dtexdem]

4. though the margin of error is large, the difference is still larger.

But polls now do not equal votes in November. That's the reason to keep those shoulders to the wheel.