Published on Patch.com on September 28, 2012.
With less than six weeks to go before the 2012 general election, a new poll commissioned by a national progressive political group purports to show that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan and congressional candidate Ann McLane Kuster have solid leads against their Republican opponents.
According to a Progressive Change Campaign Committee press release, Public Policy Polling surveyed 862 likely voters in the governor’s race between Sept. 24, and Sept. 25. The results showed that Hassan with 51 percent of the vote and Republican Ovide Lamontagne with 44 percent. Five percent of the respondents were undecided voters. The margin of error on the results was 3.3 percent.
John Babiarz, the libertarian running for governor who is also on the ballot, appears to have not been included in the poll.
In the 2nd Congressional District, 461 likely Granite State voters were polled and the results were similar to the governor’s race: Kuster received 51 percent of those polled while incumbent U.S. Rep. Charles Bass, R-NH-2, received 45 percent. The undecided number came in at 4 percent and the margin of error was 4.6 percent.