I have been researching New York state local politics for a few months which I had picked up as a research project for a friend... and what I am seeing now is a major shift in the numbers.
" Election 2010: New York Senate 2010 NY Senate: Gillibrand 39%, Generic Republican 34%, Ford 10%
There’s an old political axiom: You can’t beat somebody with nobody. At least not in real life. But nobody comes pretty close in a new Rasmussen Reports survey of one of New York’s two U.S. Senate races this year.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of likely voters favor incumbent Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, while 34% opt for an unnamed generic Republican candidate. Ten percent (10%) favor former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr., now a Manhattan investment banker. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.