Illinois Senate: Kirk (R) [44%], Giannoulias (D) [40%] Still Running Close (Rasmussen)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 10/20/10 | Rasmussen

[coaltrain]

Republican Congressman Mark Kirk is now barely ahead of Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in Illinois’ up-and-down race for the U.S. Senate.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Kirk picking up 44% of the vote, while Giannoulias, the current state treasurer, draws 40% support. Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones earns the vote from four percent (4%) of voters, and eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate. Five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The race is still a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings. The survey was taken the night before their second head-to-head debate.

The race was a virtual tie last week, when Giannoulias picked up 44% of the vote to Kirk's 43%.

[coaltrain]

Rino beating mob banker thief to replace Obama! Was 44% D to 43% R last week. Time for Moochelle to go do some more campaigning at the early voting centers.

[GonzoGOP]

The Turbo RINO from hell is going to pull this out, but not because on any favorable attribute on his part. (1)Giannoulias is mind blowingly bad, even for a democrat. (2) The third party Tea Party candidate has failed to catch fire and split the GOP vote. (3)Brady is beating Quin by six points, or by a whopping d a 46% to 38% when the wright in candidate isn't considered. Brady can bring out the Tea Party voters in a way that the RINO Kirk never could.

[jaydubya2]

I listened to the debate last night and concluded that both these guys are LOSERS!

[bigbob]

The debate sucked, it would be hard to pick two more exrementally bad candidates, but as an old coach once phrased it during a halftime pep talk, “when crap meets crap, someone still has to win, and it better be our side”.

I see this as the first step in a journey that is only now beginning, thanks to that idiot Jack Ryan and his pervy proclivities that put one Barack Obama in the US Senate. Breaking the Democrat lock on the Senate is a huge deal, and the next Senator can be a whole lot better than Mark Kirk.

[GonzoGOP]

The debate sucked, it would be hard to pick two more exrementally bad candidates,

I have often stated that the only good thing about Mark Kirk is that it will be much easier to eliminate him in the primary six years from now than it will be to eliminate an entrenched democrat incumbent like Giannoulias in the general.

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Jack Ryan’s ( and previous to that Blair Hull in the D primary) sealed divorce papers were forced open by the Chicago Libune. Guess who was pushing hisformer co workers to accomplish this??? David Axelrod

[Lurker]

I have often stated that the only good thing about Mark Kirk is that it will be much easier to eliminate him in the primary six years from now than it will be to eliminate an entrenched democrat incumbent like Giannoulias in the general.

Maybe we can get Oberweiss to take Kirk down in the Primary.

[Lancey Howard]

This race is hopeless - - two scumbags.
I have to pull of the rat in this case since I’d rather be knifed in the face by an enemy than stabbed in the back by a “friend”.