Pat Toomey is leading two of the Democrats challenging him for re-election, according to a new poll.
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McGinty is running against former Congressman Joe Sestak and Braddock Mayor John Fetterman in the April 26th Senate Democratic primary.
And while some similarities were shown last night too (all three candidates said they embraced immigrants coming to US and lifting the Cuban trade embargo), some differences emerged and not in the most polite ways.
Sestak, a former admiral with close ties to former President Bill Clinton, has taken the shunning from the establishment in stride, trying to turn it into a positive in this anti-establishment era. Pat Toomey in November are taking questions from college students in an hour-long debate on Penn State University’s campus.
The telephone survey of 1,737 Pennsylvania voters was conducted March 30 to April 4 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.4 percentage points.
Both Democratic candidates have a name recognition problem. Robinson Township resident Joe Vodvarka received 4 percent in that poll, but he has since been removed from the ballot because of problems with his nominating petition.
Overall, Sestak’s favorable rating among Democrats is 70 percent while McGinty’s is 63 percent.
Still, the gap narrowed, and the Obama-Biden endorsement is just settling into voters’ minds – something that McGinty’s allies will work aggressively to inform the undecided voters in the campaign’s final days. McGinty’s backers include President Barack Obama, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Gov. Tom Wolf and the AFL-CIO. While 51 percent don’t know enough about Sestak, 64 percent don’t know enough about McGinty.
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The good news for the DSCC was McGinty’s movement – she rose 14 percent in one month in the Harper poll.
