Democratic attorney general, SOS candidates lead Republicans in new poll
Democratic candidates for attorney general and secretary of state are leading Republicans by double-digit margins, but name recognition for all Michigan hopefuls in the races is minimal, according to a new statewide poll.
Democratic Plymouth attorney Dana Nessel led Republican House Speaker Tom Leonard of DeWitt 42 percent to 29 percent, while Democrat Jocelyn Benson is ahead of Republican Mary Treder Lang 44 percent to 29 percent, according to the Glengariff Group survey.
The Detroit News and WDIV-TV commissioned the Sept. 5-7 poll of 600 likely voters that had a margin of error of plus-minus 4 percentage points.
Republican candidates will have to spend large amounts of money to make their names better known and overcome associations with President Donald Trump, about whom 57 percent of those polled had an unfavorable opinion, said Richard Czuba, who conducted the poll for the Lansing-based Glengariff.
“What’s interesting here is both parties nominated people that nobody knows,” Czuba said of the attorney general and secretary of state races. “Their own voters don’t know the individuals, so these races right now are automatically reverting to kind of the generic ballot test, and the same factor we see playing out in the governor’s race is playing out in these races.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/09/11/democrat-attorney-general-sos-lead-republicans-poll/1268211002/
JOCELYN BENSEN FOR MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE
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DANA NESSEL FOR MICHIGAN ATTORNEY GENERAL
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