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Story Archives: Poll shows Landrieu leading Kennedy in Senate race; McCain ahead, too


Poll shows Landrieu leading Kennedy in Senate race; McCain ahead, too
posted Monday, April 14th, 2008 @ 9:56 pmE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu holds a commanding lead over her likely Republican opponent in this fall's Senate race, a poll released Monday showed.

The Southern Media & Opinion Research poll also said Louisianians favor Sen. John McCain over the two Democrats who are battling to face him in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Southern Media's poll of 600 likely Louisiana voters was conducted March 26-April 9. It had margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.

In a head-to-head match-up with state Treasurer John Kennedy, Landrieu polled 50.0 percent to Kennedy's 38.4 percent. Some 11.6 percent of the respondents were undecided.

In the presidential race, 48.8 percent of the respondents said they would vote for McCain when the Arizona senator was pitted against U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton polled 41.5 percent, while 9.7 percent were undecided.

Against U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, McCain enjoyed the support of 50.5 percent of the respondents. Slightly more than 35 percent of the likely voters polled said they would vote for Obama, while 14.2 percent were undecided.

The Southern Media poll also looked at the favorable versus unfavorable ratings of the presidential and senatorail candidates. It gauged the favorables and unfavorables of President Bush and U.S. Sen. David Vitter, too.

More than 70 percent of the respondents had a favorable opinion of Landrieu, while 47.6 percent viewed Kennedy in a positive light.

Some 24 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Landrieu; 5 percent did not know what to say about the state's senator senior senator or they were not familiar with her.

For Kennedy, almost 45 percent of the respondents were not familiar with him or would not offer an opinion on whether they liked him or disliked him; his unfavorables were 7.6 percent.

In light of his recent problems stemming from his involvement with a woman accused of operating an illegal call-girl service, 52.0 percent of the respondents had a favorable opinion of Vitter; 32.1 percent had an unfavorable opinion of him, while 15.6 were not familiar with him or would not say.

Of the three presidential candidates, the Southern Media poll found McCain enjoyed a favorable mark among 59.2 percent of the respondents; 36.2 percent had unfavorable opinion of him, while 4.6 percent were not familiar with him or would not say.

Clinton's favorable mark hovered around 45 percent, but the New York senator's unfavorables hit 51.5 percent. Some 3.5 percent of the respondents did not know her or would not say.

Obama faired about the same as Clinton when likley voters were asked how they felt about the first-term senator from Illinois.

More than 42 percent of the respondents had a favorable opinion of Obama, while 51.2 percent expressed an unfavorable opinion of him; 6.3 percent said they did not know him or would not say.

In the meantime, the poll found Bush enjoyed a favorable mark among 49 percent of the respondents, while his unfavorables hit 47.5 percent; 3.5 percent said they were unfamiliar with the president or would not say.
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