A new poll suggests “that Majority Leader Harry Reid has climbed back into the Nevada Senate race and is now virtually tied with each of the three Republican frontrunners vying for the chance to unseat the Democrat in November,” CNN reports.
According to a Mason-Dixon poll released Friday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Reid trails former Nevada GOP party chairwoman Sue Lowden by a narrow margin. Reid would win 39 percent of the vote in a hypothetical general election match-up, while Lowden clocks in at 42 percent. Lowden’s three point advantage is within the survey’s sampling error.
Reid fares even better when compared to Sharron Angle, a former GOP member of the Nevada Assembly, and former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball star Danny Tarkanian.
In those hypothetical match-ups, Reid would win 42 percent of the vote to Angle’s 39 percent. And when matched against Tarkanian, Reid trails by one point, garnering 41 percent compared to 42 percent for Tarkanian. Both of these margins are also within the poll’s sampling error.
The results represent “a significant improvement for Reid, but the veteran senator’s support totals fall consistently around 40 percent, short of the 50 percent considered healthy for incumbents.”
What about the Republican primary?
The poll also reveals new clues about which candidate is most likely to emerge from a crowded GOP primary field to challenge Reid in November.
If the primary were held today, former frontrunner Lowden would win 30 percent of the vote, compared to 29 percent for Tea Party favorite Angle and 23 percent for Tarkanian.
The surging Angle has locked up several high profile endorsements in recent weeks, including nods from the Tea Party express and the fiscally conservative Club for Growth.
The Republican Senate primary is scheduled for June 8.
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