Question:
If the next election for US. Senate were held today, would you vote for Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse or Republican Benjamin Hinckley? [Asked only of 471 likely voters; margin of error ±4.5%] Sheldon Whitehouse 58.6%; Benjamin Barrett Hinckley 29.7 %; DK/NA 11.7%

About this Poll
Researchers at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and the John Hazen White Public Opinion Laboratory at Brown University surveyed a random sample of 496 Rhode Island voters from Sept. 26 to Oct. 5, 2012. The poll has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.