Elizabeth Warren Opens Up Lead on Brown
The liberal favorite pulls ahead by seven points in a new Massachusetts poll.
| Posted Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at 10:44 AM
A new poll shows Elizabeth Warren has opened up a 7-point lead on her GOP rival, Scott Brown, ahead of next year's Senate election.
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Elizabeth Warren has opened up a seven-point lead on Republican Sen. Scott Brown, according to a new poll out Thursday.
The University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald poll shows Warren with a 49-42 lead over her Republican rival, when likely voters who say the are "leaning" toward one of the two candidates are included in the totals. Warren’s lead shrinks slightly when the leaners are removed from the equation, with the gap closing to 46-41, roughly the same as the poll’s margin of error (+/-5.3).
According to the Herald, the lead is Warren’s largest since she jumped into the race and represents a ten-point swing since late September when the same poll showed Brown up, 41-38.
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