On behalf of the Democratic group VoteVets, PPP is out with surveys of the Senate races in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. All these polls were conducted Sept. 27-28, just after the first presidential debate:
• CO-Sen: Michael Bennet (D-inc) 44, Darryl Glenn (R) 34 (46-40 Clinton)
• FL-Sen: Marco Rubio (R-inc) 42, Patrick Murphy (D) 35, Paul Stanton (Libertarian) 9 (45-43 Clinton) (Sept.: 40-37 Rubio)
• NC-Sen: Richard Burr (R-inc) 41, Deborah Ross (D) 39, Sean Haugh (Libertarian) 6 (44-42 Clinton) (Sept.: 41-41 Senate tie)
• PA-Sen: Katie McGinty (D) 45, Pat Toomey (R-inc) 40, Edward Clifford (Libertarian) 9 (45-39 Clinton)
Note that this is the first time that PPP has tested Libertarian Edward Clifford in their Pennsylvania poll, so we do not have a proper trendline. PPP’s last poll, which was conducted at the end of August for the Democratic group the Constitutional Responsibility Project,
gave McGinty a similar 44-41 lead against Toomey. In North Carolina there has been very little change since PPP
surveyed the state a week ago. Unfortunately, the news is bad in Florida, where Rubio has expanded his lead over the last month.