Poll: Warren Leads Brown by 7
By Julie Sobel // October 30, 2012 | 1:32 p.m.
After a Boston Globe poll showed a tied Massachusetts Senate race Monday, a Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll released Tuesday shows Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren leading Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., by 7 points.
Warren has 53 percent support in the poll to Brown's 46 percent. Their previous poll, in September, showed Warren leading Brown 48 percent to 44 percent. Most other recent polling shows Brown lagging Warren.
"Elizabeth Warren is riding a final wave of momentum to the U.S. Senate," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, in a polling memo. "Unless something drastically changes in the final days before the election, you will be hearing the title 'Senator-elect' Warren instead of 'Professor' Warren."
Warren is at 51 percent favorability, with 36 percent seeing her unfavorably. Brown has 45 percent favorability, with 42 percent viewing him unfavorably. He leads 54 percent to 43 percent among independents, while in September he had led 55 percent to 34 percent.
And the poll has President
Obama trouncing
Mitt Romney in the White House race, with 63 percent to the former Massachusetts governor's 31 percent.
Brown and Warren were supposed to face off in their fourth and final debate tonight, but it was
called off due to Hurricane Sandy. It's unclear whether the two will reschedule the debate in the remaining week prior to the election.
The survey of 600 likely voters was conducted October 25-28. It has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percent.
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