The race for Massachusetts governor is tied, according to a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports.
The survey, released Sunday, found state Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, and Republican challenger Charlie Baker each with 42 percent of support among likely voters in the Bay State.
The survey of 750 likely voters found fully 10 percent undecided.
Most polls find Coakley ahead by a few points, but her lead has slipped from a 15-point advantage in July, which has some Democrats worried they’ll lose the race.
Coakley infamously blew a double-digit lead in the 2010 U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated because of the death of Democrat Edward Kennedy. She lost to Republican Scott Brown, who became the first GOP senator elected in the state in decades.
The state has a solid history of electing GOP governors, however, among them former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who served from 2003 until 2007.
Prior to current Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, the state was governed by four Republicans, from 1991 until 2007.
The margin of error for the poll, which was conducted by automated telephone calls, is plus or minus four percentage points.
