Poll: Susan Collins trails challenger Sara Gideon by small margin

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON – With less than a week until Election Day, Republican Sen. Susan Collins is trailing Democratic challenger Sara Gideon by a slim margin, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Gideon, the speaker of the Maine House, leads Collins, 47% to 43%, among likely voters, according to the poll by Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and first reported by USA TODAY. A combined 7% of voters are supporting Independent candidates Lisa Savage (5%) and Max Linn (2%).

Dan Shea, Colby College Government Department chair and lead researcher on the poll, noted there hasn’t been much movement over the past few months between Gideon and Collins, as there are few undecided voters left.

"For all that money, and all this attention, and all those efforts, the electorate seems pretty well stuck where they started several months ago," he told USA TODAY.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-susan-collins-trails-challenger-sara-gideon-by-small-margin-biden-leading-trump-statewide/ar-BB1at6Gx?li=BB141NW3&ocid=DELLDHP

[lagomorph777]

1. USA Today is right-leaning, so this is very good news.

Add a few points for their bias. Colby College is not rated at 538, but they are showing this poll.

[samsingh]

4. i've noticed that as well.

[reggaehead]

9. Not according to media bias

Which call them left center. Then again, they call the Epoch Times right-Center

[Maine-i-acs]

2. Ranked Choice will be the crushing blow to Sellout Susie.

Lisa Savage is specifically asking her supporters to vote for Gideon second.
So if the first round of counting ends without a plurality, last place contender drops out (Linn) and shifts their voters to their #2 choice.
Then another round for the 3rd place candidate to drop out (Savage) and her voters shift to their 2nd choice.
By then it should be a pretty clear margin.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. I know one thing I will take away from this election

I will NEVER look at people the same way again. I will ALWAYS look at a person when I see/meet them and ask myself, "Are they one of THEM? One of those people who would vote for a person like Trump who would see them, and all of us, dead and not think twice about it."

[lagomorph777]

8. I know - I look at everybody that way now.

[cstanleytech]

5. Collins deserves to lose as she sold out everything thinking it would help her remain in office.

[Brainfodder]

6. My level of concern can not be measured!

Seriously.... nothing that small....

Traumatized by other shit atm....

Piss off Susan about covers it, if I am remaining civil, otherwise, yeah go there and go there hardcore!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. After ranked choice run off

Last edited Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:00 AM - Edit history (1)

It would be 52% Gideon and 45% Collins (don't know where the other 3% go). Savage voters will pick Gideon as second choice. Linn voters will pick Collins as second choice.