It’s unusual for a poll to show an incumbent House member trailing a challenger. So it’s interesting that a SurveyUSA poll conducted for FireDogLake shows Democratic incumbent Baron Hill of the 9^th district of Indiana trailing Republican challenger Mike Sodrel 49%-41%. It should be noted that Sodrel is almost surely better known than most challengers; this is the fifth time he has run against Hill, and he won the 2004 race 49.5%-49.0%.

Hill won 51%-46% in 2002, 50%-45% in 2006 and 58%-38% in 2008. The SurveyUSA poll shows Sodrel up 9% from where he ran 14 months ago and Hill running an amazing 17% behind where he ran in 2008.

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