New poll gives Mills an edge in Maine governor's race
Source: Portland Press Herald
A new online poll suggests Democrat Janet Mills is leading in the race to be Maine’s next governor with about an 8-point advantage over Republican Shawn Moody.
The poll of 500 likely voters statewide by the Portland-based Pan Atlantic Research, was conducted the first week in October. It found that 44.4 percent of respondents would vote or were leaning towards voting for Mills, a Farmington resident and the state’s Attorney General, while 35.9 percent said they would vote for Moody, the Gorham businessman and the founder of a chain of auto-body repair shops. The poll has a margin of error of about 4.4 percent.
The poll included 500 likely voters and the data were weighted using U.S. Census Bureau data to match the composition of Maine’s historical voting population based on congressional district, age, education, income, and gender, according to the poll. The survey respondents were equally split between genders and party affiliation.
Brent Littlefield, a political consultant on the Moody campaign, dismissed the results Monday, saying that Pan Atlantic’s top pollster, Patrick Murphy, and his wife, Victoria Murphy, were registered Democrats and that she is a former chairwoman of the Maine Democratic Party. Littlefield also noted that of those polled, 39 percent had 4-year college degrees or more compared to 29 percent of Mainers, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
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