A new set of polls from High Point University and SurveyUSA have good news Republican candidates for Senate in Colorado, North Carolina, and New Hampshire. The polls of likely voters in all three swing states found Republicans in good positions against incumbent Democrats with just weeks to go before the election.
In Colorado, likely voters prefer Republican Cory Gardner to Democrat Mark Udall 46 percent to 42 percent, with 7 percent saying they’re voting for someone else and 5 percent undecided. The poll also found 52 percent disapprove of Udall’s job as senator and 54 percent disapprove of Barack Obama’s job as president.
For North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis, the High Point poll is the first in more than two months to show him ahead, even if by a few fractions of a point. The survey found 40.4 percent prefer Tillis to incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, at 39.5 percent. With rounding, the candidates are tied at 40 percent, which is the lowest rating for Hagan (who also gets 46 percent dsiapproval) since August. Fifty-five percent disapprove of Obama’s job.
And in New Hampshire, Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen leads Republican challenger Scott Brown by just 2 points, 48 percent to 46 percent. Shaheen’s approval/disapproval numbers are the closest among the three Democrats, with 48 percent disapproving and 47 percent approving of her job. President Obama, meanwhile, has a 54 percent disapproval rating in New Hamsphire.
As the boss said on ABC News’s This Week Sunday, he believes Republicans will “win the Senate, and I think they’ll win it with a few seats to spare.” Watch the video below:
