Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Jeff Flake Takes Commanding Lead in the 2012 Arizona Senate Race - Rasmussen Reports™





Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the race to fill Jon Kyl’s U.S. Senate seat in Arizona shows both leading Republican hopefuls ahead of their top Democratic opponents.


A new statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Grand Canyon State finds Republican Congressman Jeff Flake earning 47% support to former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona’s 34%.


Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, while 16% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)


If attorney and party activist Don Bivens is the Democratic nominee, Flake still picks up 47%, while Bivens earns 30% of the vote. Given this matchup, three percent (3%) favor another candidate in the race, and another 20% are undecided.


Businessman Wil Cardon, Flake’s top GOP primary challenger, leads Bivens by a 42% to 30% margin. Four percent (4%) support some other candidate, while 24% are not sure.


However, Cardon runs nearly even when Carmona is his Democratic challenger, leading 39% to 38%. In that matchup, three percent (3%) like a different candidate, and 20% more are undecided.


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This Arizona survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on March 13, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Arizona is lucky to have Jeff Flake. If only wee could have 99 other in the Senate with his courage, then maybe we could get the nation back on track.