Polls Show Snyder Leading Schauer, Peters Lead Growing

With Election Day less than a month away, new polls are showing solidified leads in both major races in the state. Governor Snyder, who is running for re-election, and Gary Peters, running for the open U.S. Senate seat, have both shown leads outside of the margin of error in multiple polls.

Snyder-Schauer: Two polls, one released by the Glengariff Group for the Detroit News and the other by Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group (MRG) show Rick Snyder holding a statistically significant lead over Mark Schauer. Glengariff had Snyder leading by almost 8 percent, while MRG had the lead at a little over 5 percent. Both agencies polled 600 likely voters and had margins of error of 4 percent. In late August, multiple polls had shown Schauer leading Snyder within the margin of error. In the last several months Michigan’s unemployment rate has dropped and Snyder’s job approval rating was shown to be 55-40 and 54-41 in the MRG and Glengariff polls respectively. This improved sentiment, coupled with the Governor’s recent television advertisements, has likely created the current polling outcomes.

Peters-Land: In the last five polls released from the end of September to the beginning of October, Gary Peters has showed an average lead over Terri Land of 46 percent to 36 percent. Republican hopes of winning the open Senate seat are dwindling, and the Republican Senatorial Committee has pulled the $850 million in funding it had reserved for Land’s campaign. It is unclear whether B-PAC, a super PAC targeting Gary Peters for supporting President Obama and other Democratic leaders, will continue its efforts. However, Ending Spending, a super PAC led by TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, will likely continue to air television ads targeting Peters. On the other side of the PAC discussion, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super PAC Independence USA has announced its support for Gary Peters, which should prove to be valuable in the coming weeks.

posted by PAA Online , Friday, October 10, 2014 10:51 AM
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