October 11, 2004--Republican Jim DeMint is leading in the race to become the next United States Senator from South Carolina. However, the race is closer than most analysts had expected it to be. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows DeMint holding a 6-point lead, 49% to 43%, over Democrat Inez Tenenbaum. The survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted Monday, October 6, 2004. Margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fifty-two percent (52%) of South Carolina voters have a favorable opinion of DeMint. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the same about Tenenbaum. When...