Question If the election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate were held today, would you vote for Claire McCaskill, the Democrat, or Jim Talent, the Republican?

Poll Demographics

Gender:  Men: 392 (49%)  Women: 408 (51%) Political Party:  Democrats: 288 (36%)  Republicans: 296 (37%)  Independents: 216 (27%)  Race:  White: 704 (88%)  Black: 80 (10%)  Other: 16 (2%)

Age:  18-29: 144 (18%)  30-44: 248 (31%)  45-59: 256 (32%)  60+: 152 (19%) Region:  St. Louis City: 54 interviews  St. Louis Suburbs: 255 interviews  Kansas City: 158 interviews  North/Southeast: 182 interviews  Southwest: 151 interviews

About this Poll
The Research 2000 Missouri Poll was conducted by Research 2000 of Rockville, MD from January 16-18. A total of 800 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections were interviewed statewide by telephone for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4).

Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges was utilized in order to ensure an accurate reflection of the state. Quotas were assigned to reflect the voter registration of distribution by county.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the "true" figure would fall within that range if the entire population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as a gender or region.