Reversing a months-long decline in his lead in Connecticut”™s U.S. senate race, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal opened up an 11-point margin over former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. CEO Linda McMahon, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
The Democrat Blumenthal led the Republican McMahon by a 54 percent to 43 percent margin among likely voters, after a Sept. 28 poll had him clinging to a 49-46 lead. During the interval, Blumenthal appears to have captured a larger share of independent voters.
In the latest poll, just 3 percent of those polled said they are undecided, while another 7 percent indicated they may change their mind. Quinnipiac assigned a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points for the poll, which surveyed more than 1,100 voters Oct. 7-11.
“Linda McMahon may have peaked too soon and her advertising saturation could be causing ”˜McMahon fatigue,”™” said Douglas Schwartz, poll director at Quinnipiac University, in a prepared statement. “Even if she won all the undecided (votes), she still would fall short. This has been a very unusual election year, however, so anything is possible.”
