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New Poll Sets Up Lincoln Against GOP Challengers
01/22/10 12:04 am |   reporter: Scott Inman producer: Scott Munsell

Little Rock - The 2010 campaign season is beginning to pick up steam.

With filing periods a little more than a month from now and the first primary a couple of months after that, the Arkansas News Bureau, a Channel 7 News media partner, has released the first locally-commissioned poll.

The phone survey reached 625 registered voters including 303 likely Democratic primary voters, and found that in the U.S. Senate race, Incumbent Blanche Lincoln would easily earn her party's nomination against hypothetical opponents. In a match-up against Lt Governor Bill Halter, Lincoln wins by 18 percentage points with 12% undecided.  Against State Senate President Pro Temp Bob Johnson, the margin is even larger.  Neither Halter nor Johnson have said they are running. (Emphasis added)

Shifting to general election match-ups, the numbers grow closer.  The poll set up Lincoln against six announced Republican candidates head-to-head.  In two, the GOP challenger wins: State Senator Gilbert Baker beats Lincoln by four points and former State Senator Jim Holt, who ran against Lincoln six years ago, would win by six points.  Lincoln edges out businessman Curtis Coleman by one point, retired Army Colonel Conrad Reynolds by three points, State Senator Kim Hendren by five points and businessman Tom Cox by three points. (Emphasis added)

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-- Edited by Sanders on Saturday 30th of January 2010 12:16:40 AM