Not quite inside MoE, but we’ve got a month to go. Rasmussen gives the numbers as being 50/45 Blumenthal/McMahon: as a look at the polls over the last few months show , this race has been steadily tightening since Linda McMahon was nominated. Which is probably why Bill Clinton had to stump for Blumenthal ; the DSCC was and is not prepared to spend large sums of money on this race, and it shows. They’re also pretty clearly not prepared to handle the specter of an actual contest in Connecticut, and that also shows. You know, you hear a lot of criticism directed at the NRSC’s recruitment policy, and some of those criticism is justified, and some of it is not. But what you don’t hear is much criticism of the DSCC’s recruitment policy… and, frankly, they’ve been awful this cycle, even though they have the advantage of playing largely a defensive game. Blumenthal represents one of their better gets, and he’s been hemorrhaging support all summer.
Well, maybe Quinnipiac’s poll tomorrow will give the Democrats better news. Then again, maybe it won’t.
Moe Lane (Crosspost)
PS: There’s a debate scheduled for October 4th between Linda and Blumenthal; at this rate, the latter may be wishing that he had agreed to an earlier one…
It’s interesting in a lot of these races where the Republican is trailing how their opponents seem to have such a hard time breaking 50%. Not sure if this actually means anything, but, I’m tempted to think it means even more of an unidentified advantage for the right in polling.