Chris Murphy on the way to the Senate
Hot off the presses, the
Hartford Courant gives Chris Murphy a
real lead in the Connecticut Senate race.
After emphasizing women's issues and increasing his support among females, Democrat Chris Murphy has pulled ahead of Republican Linda McMahon by 6 percentage points in the U.S. Senate race in the latest University of Connecticut/Hartford Courant poll.
Among likely voters, Murphy leads McMahon, 44 percent to 38 percent, with 17 percent of voters still undecided.[...]
The survey of 574 randomly selected likely voters, taken between Oct. 11 and 16, showed that Murphy had the support of 50 percent of women, compared with 32 percent for McMahon. By contrast, McMahon leads among men, 45 percent to 37 percent.
The margin of error is four points, so Murphy's not out of the woods, but he's on the right side of the momentum push with less than three weeks to go. It helps that McMahon continues to provide him with plenty of ammunition, particularly among women, with her
confused positions on choice and on emergency contraception. Women's organizations aren't going to
let her get away with trying to confuse the issue.
And that's helping to create a narrative that will remind Connecticut voters of the past McMahon is trying to scrub.
The Connecticut Democratic Party last month tried reviving attacks on McMahon using old video clips from WWE productions, which have been broadcast on cable television for years.
One segment, subsequently disabled online, began with the statement, “What Linda McMahon doesn’t want you to see.” It showed two female wrestlers stripping to their underwear in the ring and fondling each other before two male wrestlers appear and beat them unconscious during the televised show.
Another now-removed clip showed simulated sex acts between a male and female wrestler, first in the ring and then in what appears to be a funeral home with the woman in a casket.
The clips have been available for years, and are just now disappearing from the internet. McMahon's husband Vince still runs the company, which says officially, “Any assertion that WWE is coordinating with Linda McMahon’s U.S. Senate campaign is false; to do so would be unlawful." Sounds like there might be something else McMahon gets in trouble for.
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1:46 PM PT: And this just in: PPP just released this poll for the League of Conservation Voters showing a 48-44 lead for Murphy. He's getting 16 percent of Republicans, has a 48-42 lead among women, and is tied at 47 with men.
