DSCC Internal: Yet Another Poll With Warren Up

By Julie Sobel  //  October 8, 2012 | 10:14 a.m.

Another day, another poll showing Elizabeth Warren with a narrow lead over Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass: An internal survey conducted for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee by Harstad Strategic Research shows the Democrat with 50 percent support to Brown's 44 percent.

It's hard to argue that the Massachusetts Senate race, one of the most closely-watched Senate contests in the nation, is still a tie.

A slew of live-caller polls over the course of the past several weeks have showed her with an edge over the GOP incumbent. Sunday, a poll conducted for the Springfield Republican showed Warren up 50 percent to 45 percent. Last week, a private poll showed her with a 48-44 lead.

A late September WBUR-FM poll showed similar results, as did a Boston Globe survey and a Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll. Just one recent live-caller poll, a UMass Lowell-Boston Herald survey conducted in mid-September, has showed Brown with the edge.

The past few weeks have seen the race take a nasty turn. The two candidates have faced off in acrimonious debates, and both have started airing attack ads hitting the other. Brown's have gone after Warren on her claims of Native American ancestry and work she did on an asbestos case. The Harstad Strategic Research poll was conducted Oct. 2-4 and surveyed 602 likely voters, for a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.

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