Michigan Poll: Dem Peters Leads Land In U.S. Senate Race, Thanks To Women Voters
WASHINGTON — Terri Lynn Land contends in a television ad that she knows more about women than Gary Peters does, but between the two U.S. Senate candidates, he’s the one enjoying female voter support — and by a considerable margin.
Really.
Peters, a Democratic congressman from Bloomfield Township, held a 44%-38% lead over Republican Land with 18% undecided in an exclusive poll of 600 likely Michigan voters done for the Free Press, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and our statewide media polling partners EPIC-MRA of Lansing May 17-20. And the overall margin is largely attributable to a whopping 14-percentage-point advantage Peters had among women.
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Land, a former Michigan secretary of state and the de facto Republican nominee to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, had a 5-point lead among men, who made up a slightly smaller proportion of the survey sample. The two, who will meet in the general election in November, will take part in a forum at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference on Wednesday morning at 10:30 — but it’s not a debate.
The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, showed a 6-point improvement for Peters since February, when he trailed Land 41%-38%.
“The ads by Peters (and his allies) attacking Land on women’s issues have had more of an impact in terms of the race than the Obamacare attacks on Peters have benefitted Land,” said Bernie Porn, EPIC-MRA’s pollster.
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