IN-Monmouth: Holcomb +1

[heatcharger]

http://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_IN_081716/

Holcomb - 42%
Gregg - 41%

Conducted August 13-16. 403 LV.

[Xing]

Could be much worse. If Gregg actually does overperform Hillary by 10, he's got a good chance.

[Bismarck]

Congrats Gov Holcomb. If he's up one before he even has a single bit of advertising he is going to coast to election.

[mds32]

If the GOP holds on the governorship here there will be some hope for the GOP at least in terms of the Senate race.

[Bismarck]

Gregg has a much higher name recognition than Holcomb, doesn't he? Anyway, this is a very good poll for Republicans.

Yeah Holcomb is virtually unknown, and his campaign has had zero ads on tv so far. Gregg has a spot running right now attacking him for being associated with Pence. There is an ad running tying Gregg to Clinton but nothing positive for Holcomb yet.

[Heisenberg]

Senate poll?

[heatcharger]

Senate poll?

You can either click the link, or go to the 2016 Senatorial Polls board.

[Heisenberg]

Senate poll?

You can either click the link, or go to the 2016 Senatorial Polls board.

Thanks, I already found it.

[tmthforu94]

I think Holcomb will win this. Gregg was already facing tough odds - he based his entire campaign as a referendum on Pence, even though Pence has reasonable approval ratings and Indiana's economy is in pretty good shape. Now his only real ammo against Holcomb is tying him to Pence. Pence and Holcomb have two very contrasting styles which is going to make that tough, plus, tying them together isn't necessarily a bad thing to many Hoosiers.

Gregg needs to figure out how to rebrand his campaign - if it is any indication, he was sharing an editorial the other day that praised both candidate's commitment to pre-school education when education is one of his best attack issues he could be using against the Pence/Holcomb administration.