A new poll of Georgia voters found the likely Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate is slightly ahead of four the candidates in the crowded GOP primary. PPP, working on behalf of the liberal group Americans United For Change, found that Democrat Michelle Nunn leads Republican congressmen Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, and Jack Kingston, as well as former secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel.

Nunn’s closest competitor is Broun, who polls 41 percent to Nunn’s 42 percent. Kingston gets 40 percent to Nunn’s 42 percent, while Gingrey and Handel both poll four points behind Nunn, (45 percent to 41 percent against Gingrey, 44 percent to 40 percent against Handel). The poll did not ask about a fifth Republican candidate, businessman David Perdue.