October 15, 2008 - 9:58am
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Poll: Gregoire-Rossi still in dead heat, 49-48

The latest SurveyUSA tracking poll conducted for KING-TV Seattle and KATU-TV Portland shows Gov. Chris Gregoire with a slim lead over Dino Rossi in the Washington gubernatorial race, 49 percent to 48 percent.

It marks yet another statistical dead heat for the two candidates who already clashed in 2004, and shows Rossi leading among independents by eight points and men by six points, while Gregoire has a seven point advantage among women.

Notable to the pollsters is the stark difference between Gregoire and the national trend. See their comments below.

Most striking: SurveyUSA is polling in 28 states. In state after state, as Democrat Barack Obama has run up the score at the top of the ticket, down-ticket Democrats have benefited. In other states, a rising Democratic tide is floating the boats of Democratic candidates for Senator, Governor, and Attorney General. Not in Washington State. Dino Rossi, rare among Republicans running for statewide office in 2008, is not being dragged down by John McCain. Christine Gregoire is not being pumped up by Barack Obama.

 

The poll was taken from a sample of 544 likely voters, with a margin of error +/- 4.3 percent. It also has numbers for the presidential race, and puts Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) ahead of Republican standard bearer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by sixteen points, 56-40. For a rundown of statewide races also polled, see Wally Edge.

BRYAN BISSELL is a PolitickerWA.com Reporter and can be reached via email at bryan.bissell@politickerwa.com.
Related topics: Dino Rossi, polls, Chris Gregoire

Comments

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Thank you very much for this information.

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11/03/08 12:48 pm

Gregoire Poll + canvass and trend= win Rossi bad news for WA


The Seattle Times Republican Owner writes another press release for Rossi today.

But I think Gregoire is going to benefit from Biden's event at Cheney field today, and will get help before November 4 with late voters when Obama comes in for a GOTV visit.

Obama's going to help Gregoire by 1 percent with canvass operations that boost voter turnout in Seattle and Tacoma.

Rossi will be bad for our schools, terrible on the environment, and encourage sprawl, more highways, more builder welfare on farms up and down the I 5 corridor.

It is easy to say you are for tax cuts, especially when kids are the ones to get the brunt of his cuts.

Gregoire gets that the economy has changed and we need to get the budget under control. But we also need to invest in education, in cleaning up Puget Sound, and make developers pay the true costs of their development instead of the rest of us.

10/19/08 1:14 pm

48-47


Actually, the poll is Gregoire 48-Rossi 47, a statistical tie.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=40846e1b-3762-460f-90d...

10/15/08 3:13 pm

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