Joe Sestak (D) “leads Pat Toomey (R) 46-45,” according to a new PPP survey of the race.
Toomey’s support has remained stagnant over the last 2 months while Sestak’s has gone up 10 points from 36% to 46%.
The Real Clear Politics average for this race currently favors Toomey by 7.8 points.
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With a little over “two weeks left in the 2010 election cycle, Republican Marco Rubio (39 percent) leads Independent candidate Charlie Crist (31 percent) by 8 points and Democrat Kendrick Meek (22 percent) by 17 points in the race for U.S. Senate, according to the latest Suffolk University/WSVN poll.”
Libertarian Alexander Snitker trails with only 2 percent and 6 percent of likely voters remain undecided.
The Real Clear Politics average for this race favors Rubio by 16.2 points.
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Retiring Indiana Senator “Evan Bayh is sitting on a mountain of campaign cash that could help advance his political career, even as Democratic leaders urge senators to dig deep into their pockets right now to help save their threatened congressional majority,” POLITICO reports.
Bayh’s latest Federal Election Commission report shows that he still has $10.3 million in his campaign account – a staggering amount for a lame duck senator — but he has yet to transfer any of that money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Bayh has by far the most cash-on-hand of any retiring senator who is not seeking elective office this cycle, intensifying expectations that he is saving the cash for a future statewide or national run.
But Democrats battling to save their Senate majority seem eager to get as much of Bayh’s money as they can right now.
“We have certainly solicited and invited every member to give the maximum that they are able to help the effort,” said New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, DSCC chairman, in a recent interview when asked about Bayh’s campaign funds. “And clearly, the greater that we have a participatory caucus, the better position we’ll be in for the successes that we want this coming November.”
During the “last three months, Bayh donated $2,000 to New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and $4,000 to Robin Carnahan, the Missouri Senate Democratic candidate.”
And in past quarters, he’s given similar-sized sums to at least 10 other Democratic candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
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The Missouri Senate race “is getting closer, with Robin Carnahan pulling within 5 points of Roy Blunt in a new PPP poll conducted for her campaign.”
Blunt’s lead is 46-41, in contrast with the 45-38 advantage he had when we last took a look at the race in August.
Analysis:
Some pundits have written off this race as an opportunity for Democrats to pick up a seat but Carnahan is within the margin of error and picking up support and if her party’s base continues to awaken in the final 15 days before the election this race could provide a surprise.
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California’s “big-ticket Republicans — Meg Whitman, the candidate for governor, and Carly Fiorina, the candidate for Senate — skipped a major rally with Sarah Palin last week, but Marco Rubio has different plans,” the New York Times reports.
Mr. Rubio, the Florida Republican running for Senate, said Monday that he would join Ms. Palin and Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, which is sponsoring the “victory rally” in Orlando on Saturday at 3 p.m. Other Republicans in the Sunshine State, especially those in tight Congressional races, are likely to follow suit – a sign in part of Ms. Palin’s varying levels of popularity nationwide.
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