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March 09, 2010

Huffman's Not Really All That, Says Wyden's Poll

Regardless of what you think of the job that Ron Wyden is doing as Oregon's US Senator, it seems clear that, at this point, he's the best alternative to anything Republican.

In the wake of a Rasumussen poll that says that Republican challenger Jim Huffman has only a six percentage point lead of Oregon's senior senator, the Wyden camp has released a poll from Democratic pollster Lisa Grove that appears to show that Huffman's support may be wide but not all that deep, and that objects in Rasumssen's mirror are not at all as large as they appear.

According to Mapes at The O, Huffman only polls 23% against Wyden's 53%, if you add in Libertarian seeker Marc Delphine. Also, undecided returns bigger numbers in the Grove poll. The reason the Wyden camp didn't take the Rasmussen poll seriously is because they felt that that for a literal unknown in Oregon politics, 43 per cent was a little low of a number for those who had never heard of him.

A real interesting point was, that just for fun, they ran the question of whether or not 2nd District's Rep. Greg Walden or State Sen. Jason Atkinson had a chance against Wyden ... and it would appear that, in that hypothetical race, they do not.

Posted by The Chinuk at March 9, 2010 02:53 PM