Question:"If the 2010 Gubernatorial election was being held today and the candidates were John Stephen, the Republican and John Lynch, the Democrat, who would you vote for?" ROTATE CANDIDATES

John Stephen John Lynch Other Don’t Know (N=460) Apr. ‘10
32% 49% 1% 18%

In a hypothetical matchup between John Lynch and John Stephen, 49% of likely 2010 voters say would vote Lynch, 32% would vote for Stephen, 1% would choose some other candidate, and 18% are undecided. “This race is largely unchanged since November, although Lynch has slipped below the psychologically important 50% line,” said Andrew Smith, Director of the UNH Survey Center. It is important to point out that only 17% of likely voters say they definitely decided who they would vote for, 14% are leaning towards someone but may still change their mind, and 70% are still trying to decide

About this Poll
These findings are based on the latest WMUR Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Five hundred (512) randomly selected New Hampshire adults were interviewed by telephone between April 18 and April 28, 2010. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.4 percent. Included was a subsample of 462 likely 2010 general election voters (margin of sampling error +/-4.6%). The data have been weighted to adjust for numbers of adults and