MD: Rasmussen: Cardin(D) leads Steele(R) after primary

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

New Poll: Maryland Senator by Rasmussen on 2006-09-13

Summary: D: 50%, R: 43%, U: 5%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Democratic Hawk]

Good . I hope to see Cardin break 50 fairly soon, which shouldn't be too difficult as long as Steele retains his penchant for "putting his foot in his mouth"

Dave

[Eraserhead]

Pretty good but Cardin should be leading by even more then this. We may see a fairly significant crossover vote for Steele since he is pretending to be a moderate to liberal independent lately. We may see a lot of Republicans vote for Cardin too though.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Cardin is the favorite and should win, but if things swing around I wouldn't be suprised to see the talented Michael Steele emerge victorious.

[Adlai Stevenson]

I think thats very unlikely.  Maryland is too Democratic and 2006 is clearly an anti-Republican year.  From this poll we can see that Steele already has the 43% who voted for Bush in 2004 which I suppose is an achievement given national circumstances.  I think Steele's threshold, however, must be around 46% of the vote.  People may flirt with voting for Steele but the Cardin campaign is obviously going to mention his party, his ties to Bush and his controversial statements; Steele is attractive at the moment because Marylanders don't know a great deal about him and he has defined himself well.