Election 2010: New Hampshire Senate (Ayotte (R) 51%, Hodes (D) 44%)

Rasmussen ^ | 9/16/2010 | Rasmussen

[Signalman]

Fresh off of winning a close Republican primary on Tuesday, former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte leads Democrat Paul Hodes by just seven points in New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Ayotte picking up 51% of the vote, while Hodes, a congressman, draws support from 44%, his best showing to date. One percent (1%) prefer another candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.

This is the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey in New Hampshire to include leaners. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either of the candidates but answer a follow-up question and say they are leaning towards a particular candidate. From this point forward, Rasmussen Reports considers results with leaners the primary indicator of the race.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

This is good news. A little grit in the Granite State.

[wilco200]

44% is as high as Hodes is going to get.

On election day he’ll be mid-30’s

[nhwingut]

Ayotte will be up by 10 within 2 weeks. Hodes at 44 is his high water mark.

[nhwingut]

I love the editorial: Ayotte leads “by just 7 points.”

[Parley Baer]

A little help here. Is this seat a pickup for the Republicans?

[who knows what evil?]

No. It is disturbing that 44% would consider voting for Hodes; a moonbat’s moonbat.

[Jim Noble]

No, Ayotte will replace Judd Gregg (R-NH).

I hope Ovide still has it in him to take on Shaheen in 2012.

[who knows what evil?]

Hodes at 44 is his high water mark.

Hope so...'Chicken Little' Hodes is running around stating that Ayotte is a "global warning denier", and she only leads by 7%? Creepy.

[ExTexasRedhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfH46DTAkxo

[ScottinVA]

That’ll work! Keep it going, Kelly!!

[TNCMAXQ]

Agreed. I thought the margin would be larger. NH is still half in love with 0bama sadly. Perhaps the difficult primary campaign hurt Ayotte. In any case most analysts rate this as leaning or likely Repub, thankfully.

Same poll shows 0 with an approval of 47% in NH and 28% strongly approving. What is wrong with people? Damn scary.

[Little Bill]

NH Ping

[OCCASparky]

Is this seat a pickup for the Republicans?

Nope--replacing Judd Gregg, who is retiring.

[OCCASparky]

I hope Ovide still has it in him to take on Shaheen in 2012.

No such luck--she's not up until 2014.

[OCCASparky]

Same poll shows 0 with an approval of 47% in NH and 28% strongly approving. What is wrong with people? Damn scary.

Flatlander and overflow from VT invasion.

[Little Bill]

A little early for polls a number of them have been all over the place. I haven't seen much on Che-Porter recently.

[OCCASparky]

You probably won’t for a few days yet—and likely most of the ones you DO see will be WMUR and the like heavily oversampling ‘Rats.

[Little Bill]

You are probably right. I was comparing the turn out in my district (3) for this year and 2008 for State Rep. The Republican turnout was about double, they haven’t posted the rat vote yet should be interesting.